An investigation by EU regulators has found TikTok and Meta in breach of the Union’s rules concerning illegal or harmful online content.

The European Commission (EC) said on Friday that preliminarily findings show both companies are not complying with Digital Services Act (DSA) rules that require them to give researchers adequate access to public data.

The Commission called Meta and TikTok’s procedures and tools for requesting access to public data “burdensome,” saying that researchers are consequently often left with partial or unreliable data, which affects “their ability to conduct research, such as whether users, including minors, are exposed to illegal or harmful content.”

The Commission also said Meta’s platforms — Instagram and Facebook — were both in breach of obligations to p

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