WhatsApp has hit a consumer criterion set out in landmark EU tech guidelines, the unit owned by Meta Platforms mentioned, that means it’s required to do extra to sort out on-line unlawful and dangerous content material.
Messaging platform WhatsApp in a February 14 submitting mentioned it had about 46.8 million common month-to-month energetic customers within the 27-country European Union within the six month interval to December 2024, above the 45-million-user threshold set out within the Digital Providers Act (DSA).
“We are able to certainly affirm that WhatsApp has revealed consumer numbers above the brink for designation as a Very Giant On-line Platform below the Digital Providers Act,” European Fee spokesperson Thomas Regnier mentioned in an e-mail on Wednesday.
After receiving the designation, a platform has 4 months to adjust to the DSA necessities together with figuring out and assessing system dangers associated to unlawful content material, basic rights, public safety and safety of minors.
Fines for DSA violations can attain as a lot as 6 p.c of an organization’s world annual income. Meta’s Instagram and Fb are already categorised as very giant on-line platforms.
Meta Chief Govt Mark Zuckerberg and its chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan have criticised EU tech guidelines and enlisted the help of US President Donald Trump.
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