{"id":984442,"date":"2026-01-10T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984442"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:41:56","slug":"eu-considers-designating-whatsapp-as-very-large-platform-spokesperson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/eu-considers-designating-whatsapp-as-very-large-platform-spokesperson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"EU considers designating WhatsApp as very large platform, spokesperson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is considering recategorising Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp to make \u200cit more responsible \u200cfor tackling illegal and harmful \u200ccontent, a spokesperson said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The Commission is actively considering designating WhatsApp as a &#8220;very large platform&#8221;, which would increase its legal responsibilities to address damaging content, after \u200cit \u200dpublished a user number \u200din February 2025 above the threshold \u200cfor application of the Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is considering recategorising Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp to make \u200cit more responsible \u200cfor tackling illegal and harmful \u200ccontent, a spokesperson said on Friday. The Commission is actively considering designating WhatsApp as a &#8220;very large platform&#8221;, which would increase its legal responsibilities to address damaging content, after \u200cit \u200dpublished a user number \u200din February 2025 above the threshold \u200cfor application of the Digital Services Act.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984442","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=984442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}