technology giants, Google, facebook, Twitter and Apple are facing tougher regulations in the EU. for their online content.

The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) that companies will follow relate to risk management and their independent control by other scientific groups. From now on, they must provide data to authorities and researchers and adopt a special code of ethics.

The European Commission has given online platforms and search engines until today, February 17, the ability to publish information about the number of active users on their platforms every month. They also have four months to comply with new EU rules or face fines.

Twitter said it has 100.9 million average monthly users in the EU, based on an estimate over the last 45 days.

As for her Googlethe average monthly number of registered users reached 278.6 million in Google Cards, 274.6 million Google Play, 332 million in Google in search, 74.9 million in purchases and 401.7 million in YouTube.

Apple stated that only the App Store, created for iphone with over 45 million monthly users, it can be considered a very large online platform. That’s why the company will apply the same rules to the App Store for ipadMac computers, Apple Watch and TV.

“Apple intends to comply with existing requirements DSA with purpose protecting consumers from illegal content,” the statement said.

Notably, earlier this week, Meta Platforms (Facebook) said it has 255 million monthly active users on average. facebook in the EU and about 250 million average monthly active users in Instagram for the last six months of 2022.

Source: Reuters.