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The Associated Press notes that this will include household names like eBay and OnlyFans, which didn’t hit the 45 million monthly active user threshold in the EU for VLOP status.

“From tomorrow, the Digital Services Act rules apply to all online platforms accessed by users in the EU,” said the European Commission’s Margrethe Vestager.

Although the DSA is still a new piece of regulation, we’ve already seen the EU use it to open a formal investigation into X over, among other things, concerns it may have facilitated “the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel.” EU regulators have the ability to fine companies up to 6 percent of their worldwide annual turnover for breaking the DSA’s rules, and even block services as a last resort.

While this deadline has been a long time coming, there are concerns that EU member states aren’t ready to enforce the DSA’s rules more broadly.

Earlier this week, Politico reported that only a third of EU countries have nominated their local regulators (named Digital Services Coordinators), who will be expected to handle user complaints and generally enforce the DSA in each member state.

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