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Meta, TikTok win on DSA fees; EU judges leave methodology dispute unresolved

By Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman ( September 11, 2025, 09:15 GMT | Comment) -- Meta Platforms and TikTok scored procedural wins at the EU’s General Court in their appeals against a supervisory fee that was imposed in the EU's Digital Services Act, the bloc's content-moderation rules. While EU judges faulted the European Commission's technical rule-making, the rulings sidestepped the platforms' main complaints and left unanswered whether the regulators' reliance on third-party data to measure user numbers is fair or proportionate.Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok on Wednesday won their challenges at an EU court against the European Commission’s supervisory fees under the Digital Services Act. But the rulings dodged companies’ complaints about the fee-calculation method and failed to provide legal certainty....

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