{"id":987952,"date":"2026-01-27T07:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987952"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:07:53","slug":"eu-to-make-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/eu-to-make-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to make WhatsApp more responsible for tackling harmful content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission \u200don Monday said it had formally designated Meta \u2060Platform&#8217;s WhatsApp as a very large platform under the EU&#8217;s Digital Services Act (DSA), making it \u200cmore responsible \u200cfor tackling illegal and harmful content. <\/p>\n<p>The Commission said \u200cearlier this month it was considering such a move, as WhatsApp had 51.7 million average monthly active users of its channels \u200bin the EU \u200bin the first six months of \u200c2025, above \u200dthe 45-million-user threshold set \u200dout in the DSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission \u200don Monday said it had formally designated Meta \u2060Platform&#8217;s WhatsApp as a very large platform under the EU&#8217;s Digital Services Act (DSA), making it \u200cmore responsible \u200cfor tackling illegal and harmful content. The Commission said \u200cearlier this month it was considering such a move, as WhatsApp had 51.7 million average monthly active users of its channels \u200bin the EU \u200bin the first six months of \u200c2025, above \u200dthe 45-million-user threshold set \u200dout in the 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-987952","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\/987952","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=987952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}