BRUSSELS—Five Alphabet subsidiaries, two Meta Platforms units, two Microsoft businesses, Twitter, and Alibaba’s AliExpress are among 19 companies subject to landmark EU online content rules, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Tuesday.
The rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) require the companies to do risk management, conduct external and independent auditing, share data with authorities and researchers and adopt a code of conduct by August.
The 19 companies include Alphabet’s Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping, and YouTube, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Amazon’s Marketplace, and Apple’s App Store.
The others are Microsoft’s two units Linkedin and Bing, booking.com, Pinterest, Snap Inc.’s Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, Zalando, and Alibaba’s AliExpress….