In a world where digital services have become as essential as electricity, the European Union is stepping up its commitment to ensuring a safer and fairer digital space. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) are the EU’s latest weapons in its arsenal to regulate the digital economy.

LONDON (AP) — TikTok owner ByteDance can’t avoid the bloc’s crackdown on digital giants, a European Union court said Wednesday in a decision that found the video sharing platform falls under a new law that also covers Apple, Google and Microsoft.

TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday lost its court challenge against its designation as a gatekeeper under landmark European Union rules, in a boost for

The General Court of the European Union (GC) on Wednesday ruled that ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, qualifies as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which subjects the company to

TikTok lost an appeal Wednesday to escape new digital rules that seek to rein in the power of big tech after an EU court rejected its challenge. A landmark European Union law known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) entered into force in March, and regulators believe it will create a fairer market.

The EU General Court has ruled that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, must comply with the Digital Markets Act, classifying it as an online gatekeeper alongside Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Despite ByteDance's argument against this classification,

Bytedance, the parent company of video sharing app TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Commission decision to consider it a gatekeeper under new competition rules, the General Court said in a judgment today (17 July).

An EU court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by ByteDance, owner of video-sharing platform TikTok, against the European Commission's decision to list the company as a digital "gatekeeper." The Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulates the behaviour of gatekeepers,

The European Union Court of Justice Wednesday dismissed TikTok's legal challenge to digital gatekeeper status. That status allows the EU to regulate the Chinese-owned app.

Under the DMA (Digital Markets Act), the EU designated a list of big companies as “gatekeepers.” This label requires them to meet a series of common requirements to ensure that new services can compete.