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Apple, Facebook, TikTok among six firms facing stricter EU rules

The European Commission named 22 platform services belonging to US tech behemoths

Published: Wed 6 Sept 2023, 2:41 PM

Updated: Wed 6 Sept 2023, 2:42 PM

The world's biggest digital giants - including Apple, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance - will face the toughest ever EU curbs on how they do business, according to a list published Wednesday.

The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust body, named 22 "core platform" services belonging to six US tech behemoths - Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft -- and China's ByteDance.

The services included Apple's App Store; Meta's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp; Google's YouTube video platform and Chrome browser, as well as Apple's Safari.

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