Did Europe just change the internet? Starting now, six of the world’s biggest tech companies must fully comply with the Digital Markets Act, a sweeping set of E.U. rules designed to prevent them from stifling competition.
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance have had to implement major changes to the ways their products and services work as part of rules to make the digital economy fairer.
These companies may decide to make the updates available globally to keep everyone’s experience consistent, restrict them to the European Union or chart a path into the middle ground.
