TikTok loses EU court case over regulatory requirements 

Judges said TikTok met the necessary thresholds to be brought under the scope of the Digital Markets Act, and parent company ByteDance’s attempt to appeal the European Commission’s decision to target it was not substantiated

TikTok sought to challenge additional regulatory requirements placed on it under the Digital Markets Act which took effect in March. Other tech giants such as Google and Meta also have to comply. 

TikTok lost the first legal challenge to the EU’s crackdown on big tech, after judges said the Chinese social media platform could not escape a new law reining in the likes of Google and Apple.

The EU’s General Court said TikTok parent ByteDance was powerful enough to be covered by the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA), which took effect in March. The decision can be appealed to the bloc’s top court, the European Court of Justice.