Apple, Facebook, TikTok among six firms facing stricter EU rules

The world's biggest digital giants including Apple, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance will face the toughest ever EU curbs.

Apple, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance will be facing the toughest EU rules. (REUTERS)

The world's biggest digital giants -- including Apple, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance -- will face the toughest ever EU curbs on how they do business, according to a list published Wednesday.

The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust body, named 22 "core platform" services belonging to six US tech behemoths -- Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft -- and China's ByteDance.

The services included Apple's App Store; Meta's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp; Google's YouTube video platform and Chrome browser, as well as Apple's Safari.