The EU on Monday hit Apple, Google parent Alphabet, and Meta with the first ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US giants.
The European Commission, the EU’s antitrust regulator, announced that it “suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA” — the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
Since March 7, six of the world’s biggest tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft — have had to comply with the EU’s landmark DMA after being named so-called “gatekeepers”.
The DMA has lofty goals of creating a fairer digital space by curbing how the biggest companies act online, including ensuring they give users more choice.
Senior officials have acknowledged that changes are already taking place, but suggested that they did…
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