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Meta and the European Union (EU) have agreed on a stress test in July on the EU's online content rules , following EU industry chief Thierry Breton's demand that the social media platform act immediately over Meta's content targeting children. "Productive discussion with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park on EU digital rules: DSA, DMA & AI Act," Breton said in a tweet, adding that 1,000 Meta employees are working on the Digital Services Act (DSA). Productive discussion with @Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park 🇺🇸 on EU digital rules : DSA, DMA & AI Act. Preparedness on its way with 1000 Meta employees working on #DSA We agreed to do a ‘ stress test’ in July. EU’s motto: “Move fast to fix things” 🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/8LoJpD7c7O — Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) June 23, 2023 Breton had earlier in June said that Meta would have to demonstrate the measures it plans to take to comply with Eur...

 France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million ) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform's handling of online tracking known as "cookies", which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications. The CNIL found that for tiktok.com's users, it was not as easy to refuse online trackers as to accept them. The authority also found that internet users were not sufficiently informed about TikTok's use of the cookies. "These findings relate to past practices that we addressed last year, including making it easier to reject non-essential cookies and providing additional information about the purposes of certain cookies," a spokesperson for TikTok said. "The CNIL itself highlighted our cooperation during the course of the investigation an...

Twitter is planning to sell username s online to generate additional revenue, reported The New York Times. The auction would let users bid for username s or handles, though it still isn't clear if the idea might go through and be implemented. In a tweet last month, Twitter CEO, Elon Musk said that Twitter would begin freeing 1.5 billion usernames, as inactive users are removed and deleted from the platform. Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022 The platform's username squatting policy, however, doesn't allow usernames to be bought and sold but users had found a way around the policy as they traded usernames in the black market. The news report comes right after Telegram announced that it might introduce an auction for username s on a marketplace called TON blockchain. Read  Google argues it doesn't block rivals in bid to kill US government antitrust lawsuit Musk...

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users global ly unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online . The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption. Most of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser. Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the social network...