{"id":988363,"date":"2026-01-27T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988363"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:35:31","slug":"eu-to-make-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/eu-to-make-whatsapp-more-responsible-for-tackling-harmful-content-2\/","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 in the EU in the first six months of \u200c2025, above \u200dthe 45-million-user threshold set \u200dout in the DSA.<\/p>\n<p>The DSA requires \u200csuch large platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content. Meta&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram, Google&#8217;s YouTube, TikTok, Temu and Microsoft&#8217;s Linkedin are some of the companies \u200dlabelled as very large online platforms under the DSA subject to \u200dthis \u2060requirement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following the \u2060designation, Meta, the provider of WhatsApp, has four months, i.e. by mid-May 2026, to ensure WhatsApp complies with the additional DSA obligations for VLOPs,&#8221; the Commission said in a statement.<\/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 in the EU in the first six months of \u200c2025, above \u200dthe 45-million-user threshold set \u200dout in the DSA. The DSA requires \u200csuch large platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content. Meta&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram, Google&#8217;s YouTube, TikTok, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988363","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}