{"id":906918,"date":"2025-02-19T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=906918"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:21:34","slug":"metas-whatsapp-faces-tougher-eu-rules-as-monthly-users-top-45-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/19\/metas-whatsapp-faces-tougher-eu-rules-as-monthly-users-top-45-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp faces tougher EU rules as monthly users top 45 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s messaging service WhatsApp reached a crucial user milestone likely to bind it to more stringent rules under the European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp\u2019s open channels, which are feeds affiliated with news outlets or public figures that under the DSA are comparable to a social network, averaged about 46.8 million monthly average users in the second half of 2024, Meta said in a filing on Feb. 14 that hasn\u2019t previously been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s messaging service WhatsApp reached a crucial user milestone likely to bind it to more stringent rules under the European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act. WhatsApp\u2019s open channels, which are feeds affiliated with news outlets or public figures that under the DSA are comparable to a social network, averaged about 46.8 million monthly average users in the second half of 2024, Meta said in a filing on Feb. 14 that hasn\u2019t previously been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}