Meta says no plans to change moderation model outside of the US but doesn't rule out a re-haul in the future despite EU concerns

US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc., describing their cases against American companies as “a form of taxation.

Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."

The European Union (EU) is probing social media heavyweights including Meta and X as part of a stress test on disinformation

The European Commission will hold a stress test with large social media platforms next week to see whether they have done enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next

Threads, Meta's Twitter/X clone has started introducing ads with a "small test" affecting users in the US and Japan.

Social media giant Meta made hundreds of thousands of dollars last year from content posted by a well-known pro-Russian disinformation network, researchers have claimed.

The new Code of Conduct by the EU aims to improve how social media platforms deal with content that violates hate speech laws in the EU countries as well as other countries

Zuckerberg’s decision may have been an effort to court U.S. President Donald Trump, who has frequently railed against the media and Big Tech firms. According to the New York Times, the tech tycoon rolled out his new direction abruptly, blindsiding many of his staff.

The Japanese yen declined from its safe-haven gains as investors reacted to a Chinese startup's new open-source AI model and fresh U.S. tariff threats. The U.S. dollar steadied, while the euro weakened ahead of an expected ECB rate cut amid Trump's tariff plans on various imports.

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).