He added that it was now in Virkkunen, who comes from the European center-right party (EPP), to conclude EU surveys and suppress the American technology giants through the DSA.
“We want to see the same approach of … Virkkunen, with regard to the law on digital services, and the conclusion of the survey on violations of X, Tiktok and the meta from the rules that protect our online citizens,” said Saliba.
Ribera and Virkkunen jointly supervise the application of the DMA, while Virkkunen has the sole responsibility for the application of the DSA.
Brussels has opened content modulation probes in societies such as X, Meta and Tiktok on a wide range of problems, such as deceptive design, lack of miners and electoral interference.
Last summer, X was found in preliminary DSA violation for a misleading design and insufficient access to data and transparency, but that the finding has not yet led to a fine, nourishing the suspicions that Brussels is due to close ties between US President Donald Trump and the owner of X Elon Musk.
The leaders of American technology, like Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, pushed back the EU technological probes, arguing that they can be compared to prices in order to link the application of technological rules in the Trump trade war.
Earlier this week, the president of the Ursula von der Leyen commission told Politico that the block was ready to enforce her complete digital rules book, referring to probes under DMA and the DSA.
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