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Bluesky falling foul of EU rules by not reporting user numbers across the bloc

Bluesky is in breach of European Union regulations that stipulate all online platforms must regularly publish user numbers.

Currently Bluesky’s 20M global total clearly means the platform easily falls below the 45M monthly users threshold where it could be designated as a VLOP under the DSA. “Article 24 of the Digital Services Act indeed requires all online platforms in the EU, including BlueSky, to report their user numbers twice a year (in February and August) on their own website,” European Commission (EC) spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement issued to TechCrunch. “This helps the Commission to monitor market developments and potentially designate — or undesignate — platforms as [VLOPs] if they meet the threshold [of] 45 million monthly active users in the EU.”

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