The EU fines Meta and Apple for violating the Digital Antitrest Rules

The European Union was fined on Wednesday Apple and Meta Hundreds of millions of euros to break the blocks of the block digital competition.

The European Commission, the EU executive body, has completed 500 million euros ($ 571 million) and meta 200 million euros ($ 228.4 million).

Authorities said Apple did not match the so-called “steering wheel” commitments on DMA. Under the EU technological law, Apple is required to allow customers of alternative offers outside the App Store to provide free information.

The Tech giant was ordered by the EU to eliminate steering and commercial restrictions and perpetuate their compliant behavior in the future.

Apple said that the EU planned to be fined in the EU’s discussion with the Commission.

“Today’s announcements are another example of the European Commission, making a number of bad decisions for our users’ confidentiality and security, and a number of decisions that make us provide our technology for free,” he said.

“We held hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and made changes in accordance with this law in accordance with this Law that our users do not want.

The EU Commission for Meta has demanded that the Social Media Group will illegally share information to users with the company or to pay for an ad-free service. This was responsible for the application of the metage subscription to Facebook and Instagram in November 2023.

META’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, in a statement, said the Commission tried to prevent the successful American work while allowing China and European companies to work under various standards, “he said.

“This is not just a fine; the commission that forced us to change our work model, which requires us to offer a low service, it applies a multi billion-dollar tariff in meta.

The EU said that the beauty of meta allows you to follow the rules through a new version of free personal advertising services using less personal information to show the technological giant advertising.

“The commission is currently assessing this new option and continues the company’s demanding the company to prove the impact of this new advertising model in practice,” said regulators.

Meta ordered a lesser individual advertising option for a source asking to make changes to less individual ads in the 60 days ending by the EU, or to make changes to less fines.

An antitrest decision is a potential revenge from US President Donald Trump, which has no secret of dissatisfaction with the Digital Giants of America.

Prior to this month, the Trump Administration was applied so-called “mutual” tariffs 20% in the EU goods subsequently included in the United States Threw new tariff rates Dozens of trading partners, including the EU, including trade talks to 10%.

Mutual tariffs came after the previous Trump directive The American technological companies threaten to apply tariffs to Europe to combat what the digital services taxes, penalties, expertise and policies.