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Meta, TikTok win challenge against EU tech fees, forcing regulators to recalculate


Meta Platforms and TikTok on Wednesday won a legal challenge to the way EU regulators calculated a supervisory fee imposed on them under landmark tech rules, but will receive no money back while officials reformulate the levy.

Meta and ByteDance’s TikTok sued the European Commission after they were hit with a supervisory fee of 0.05% of their annual worldwide net income to cover the EU executive’s cost of monitoring their compliance with the Digital Services Act.

The size of the annual fee is tied to the number of average monthly active users for each…



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