TikTok Seeks to Avoid EU Clutches Amid Fight Over Digital Law
- Chinese social media platform wants to stall EU action
- EU’s Digital Markets Act comes into full effect in March
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TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. urged European Union judges to suspend a decision by regulators to force the video-sharing social-media platform to comply with the bloc’s flagship digital antitrust rules.
The Chinese-owned firm made the request for so-called interim measures alongside last month’s appeal against moves to put TiKTok within the scope of the Digital Markets Act. If granted, this would halt the targeting of TiKTok until the outcome of the appeal.