The European Union on Tuesday designated 19 online platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, as having user numbers so big they will come under stricter regulatory rules for content.
The list — on which services from Amazon, Google, Meta, Instagram and Microsoft also feature — all have more than 45 million monthly active users.
That puts them in a category under a new EU law, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), that will impose measures from August such as annual audits and a duty to effectively counter disinformation and hate content.