Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has responded to legislation to be implemented in the EU and will offer users of its Facebook and Instagram platforms greater control over the content they can access.
European users of Facebook and Instagram can now view content free of profiling, a key requirement under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
Nick Clegg, Meta’s global affairs president, said in a post: “We’re now giving our European community the option to view and discover content on Reels, Stories, Search and other parts of Facebook and Instagram that is not ranked by Meta using these systems.”
All digital companies operating in the EU will have to comply with the new rules including Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, TikTok and Twitter, now rebranded as X, from next week or face heavy fines.
Elon Musk, who has allowed previously banned users back onto the former Twitter site since he took ownership of the site, has yet to indicate how he will respond.
French publishers yesterday accused Musk of using new features on X to avoid paying for copyright-protected content.
Fortune magazine reported that X will remove headlines and text from news stories shared on the platform, which the French groups said was a "coarse attempt to evade neighbouring rights".