Meta is ready to escalate its concerns about what the European Union regulations consider directly to US President Donald Trump, according to the President of World Affairs. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Joel Kaplan said that the company “will not hesitate” in the request for intervention if it believes that the European Union policies are distinguished against American technology companies.
Challenges of the challenges of the European Union
Kaplan said during a discussion episode, according to a discussion government, according to what he said Bloomberg. “While we want to work within the limits of the laws that Europe has gone through – and we will always indicate – we will indicate when we believe that we have been dealt with unfairly.”
In recent years, the European Union has increased the efforts made to form large technology, protect digital rights, and impose tougher data on more data. Meta, whose business model depends on collecting data for targeted ads, has repeatedly clashed with these regulations.
Meta – which has Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Threads – has been slapped with two billion euros of fines to violate the rules for anti -monopoly and data protection in the region, which include gross domestic product, digital market law, and Digital Services Law. This total includes a record 1.2 billion euros in 2023 To offend the user data transmission laboratories between Europe and the United States.
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Technology giants are pushing back
The definition is not alone in its concern. In September 2024, representatives from Meta, along with Spotify, SAP, Ericsson, Klarna, and more major companies, signed an open speech urges organizers in Europe to address “inconsistent regulatory decisions” and unexpected compliance requests.
President Trump has previously criticized the European Union for his organizational position against Apple, Google, Meta and other American technology companies. in World Economic Forum in JanuaryHe said, “They are American companies, and they should not do so,” and this is “a form of taxes.”
Vice President JD Vance took the goal of European rule of social media activity during his speech at the Munich conference, in reference to this as “rejecting voters’ fears, closing the media” and “the most confirming way to destroy democracy.” It also has taken place Europe’s use of “excessive organization” At the Paris AI summit last week.
Date change approach
Kaplan, the Republican strategic expert who replaced Nick Cling as the leadership of a dead policy after Trump took office, framing the organization of social media as a direct challenge to freedom of expression.
“We do not want wrong information,” Kaplan said, according to Bloomberg. “People have different views of what is wrong information and otherwise.”
Last month, Mita revealed that she was stopping Fact examination program in external parties Instead of the “community notes” system, users allow its platforms to add a context to the publications they believe is misleading. She said that she would transfer California’s moderation teams to Texas “to help remove anxiety that biased employees are overly control over the content.”
The organizational confrontation on artificial intelligence
Besides social media and data privacy, Meta also clashed with the European Union regulations about artificial intelligence.
In June 2024, she delayed her training Language models On the common general content on Facebook and Instagram after the organizers suggested that it may need explicit approval from the content of the content. As a result, Meta Ai, its pioneering assistant, Amnesty International, was not released within the bloc because of it “Unpredictable” regulations.
Kaplan indicated that Meta will not sign the European Union voluntary The rules of practice of artificial intelligence for general purposes It is scheduled to be published at the end of April.
The European Union stands firm
Despite the recovery of dead, European Union officials are still firm. The Teresa Ribera, the European Union’s competitiveness, told Reuters These decisions related to whether Meta has complied with the bases of the mass will not be delayed from next month as a result of a decline. She also said that the American authorities should “enter the negotiating table” and not resort to “bullying”.