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Apple, Meta and Google to be investigated by the EU

If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms could be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover.

Alphabet, which owns Google, Meta, and Apple are all being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduced in 2022. EU antitrust boss Margrethe Vestager and industry head Thierry Breton announced the investigations on Monday. The move has "forced millions of users across Europe into a binary choice: pay or consent," said Mr Breton.

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