Meta, TikTok Successfully Challenge EU Tech Fees

The tech giants argued that the way the European Commission calculated the supervisory fees they must pay under the Digital Services Act was flawed.
Meta, TikTok Successfully Challenge EU Tech Fees
Technology company Meta Platforms at a booth during the AI+Expo Special Competitive Studies Project in Washington on June 2, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
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Meta and TikTok successfully challenged the way European Union regulators calculated a supervisory fee imposed on them under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

The DSA compels very large online platforms, defined as those with more than 45 million users in the EU, to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their sites or risk fines of up to 6 percent of their annual global turnover.

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