The EU’s investigations into online platforms, including X and Facebook, aimed at ensuring they protect Europeans, will be completed in the “coming weeks and months,” according to a senior official from the Commission.
Henna Virkkunen, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, arrives at a meeting of the College of Commissioners at the EU headquarters in Brussels on June 4, 2025. (Photo: Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)
Helsinki – Several online platforms, including Chinese retailers AliExpress and Temu and social media giants like Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, are under European investigation as part of the Digital Services Act (DSA), and this investigation is nearing its conclusion, Henna Virkkunen, vice president of the Commission responsible for technological sovereignty, told AFP on Friday.
This regulation requires the largest global tech companies to do more to protect consumers and control online content.
“In the coming weeks and months, we will be able to finalize many of these investigations,” Ms. Virkkunen said, adding that “these are the first decisions we will make under the Digital Services Act.”
The investigations have focused on “the transparency of these platforms, but also on the protection of our democratic processes, the protection of minors, and online shopping,” according to Ms. Virkkunen. And the EU will likely launch new ones, she added. (September 19, 2025)
