Tech Giants to Face EU Legal Push on Content, Competition, Taxes

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Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s digital-policy and antitrust czar, detailed a plan of how she aims to rein in U.S. tech giants, aiming to clearly delineate new legal boundaries for tech companies

BRUSSELS—Big tech companies including Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. face a swath of proposed European regulations aimed at curbing their alleged anticompetitive behavior, making them pay more taxes and compelling them to shoulder more responsibility for illegal content on their platforms, said a top European Union official.

Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s digital-policy and antitrust czar, detailed for the first time a comprehensive plan of how she aims to rein in U.S. tech giants, using a package...

 

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