{"id":984632,"date":"2026-01-12T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984632"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:56:58","slug":"eu-considers-making-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/eu-considers-making-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content\/","title":{"rendered":"EU considers making WhatsApp more responsible for tackling harmful content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Meta Platform&#8217;s messaging unit WhatsApp will likely be subject to tough \u2060online content rules targeting illegal and harmful content after it met the user threshold under this regulation, a European Commission spokesperson said \u200con Friday. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp \u200chad about 51.7 million average monthly active users of its WhatsApp Channels \u200cin the European Union in the first six months of 2025, above the 45-million-user threshold set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: Meta Platform&#8217;s messaging unit WhatsApp will likely be subject to tough \u2060online content rules targeting illegal and harmful content after it met the user threshold under this regulation, a European Commission spokesperson said \u200con Friday. WhatsApp \u200chad about 51.7 million average monthly active users of its WhatsApp Channels \u200cin the European Union in the first six months of 2025, above the 45-million-user threshold set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA).<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984632","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=984632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}