Europe’s battle to curb Big Tech


A European Union court on Nov 10, 2021, rejected a Google appeal against a €2.4bil anti-trust fine. US tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have been accused of not paying enough taxes, stifling competition, stealing media content and threatening democracy by spreading fake news. — AFP

PARIS: US tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft – collectively dubbed GAFAM – have been accused of not paying enough taxes, stifling competition, stealing media content and threatening democracy by spreading fake news.

As a European Union court ruled Wednesday on a €2.4bil (RM11.44bil) anti-trust fine on Google, we look at how the bloc has tried to regulate Big Tech.

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