US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc., describing their cases against American companies as “a form of taxation.

The pushback comes as the emboldened leaders of US tech companies, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have been courting President-elect Donald Trump, with Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg urging him directly to combat EU regulatory enforcement.

Google has told the technology branch of the EU's European Commission that it will not comply with a new fact-checking law to counter disinformation that Republicans have argued amounts to "censorship.

Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios.

Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."

Apple, Meta, Google and the European Commission did not immediately respond ... been signaling a desire to mend fences with the incoming Trump administration. The EU is mulling an expansion into its investigation into whether Trump's close ally Elon ...

The EU Commission has completed its probe into X and it looks like a fine is on its way to the tune of millions of euros.

Universal Music Group (UMG) , the world's biggest music label, and Swedish streaming giant Spotify have reached a new multi-year agreement for recorded music and music publishing, they said on Sunday.

President Trump criticized the European Union (EU) on Wednesday for levying hefty fines against the world’s biggest tech firms, calling it a “form of taxation” against American companies.

The EU has since urged companies to convert the voluntary guidelines into an official policy under the union’s newer content moderation law, the Digital Services Act of 2022. Google has never had a fact-checking department to oversee content on YouTube ...

New EU regulations call for Google to include fact-checking results alongside Google and Youtube searches. Google is refusing to meet the guidelines.

The European Commission has asked social media giants including Facebook, TikTok and X to take part in a test to see whether they are doing enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election,