Update on Tiktok

9.4.2025

Question for written answer  E-001435/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Moritz Körner (Renew)

The Commission has Tiktok in its crosshairs. ‘Concrete and robust evidence’ had been found that the Chinese social media platform was allegedly in breach of EU law on digital services, wrote Thierry Breton, the Commissioner responsible for the internal market, to me at the beginning of 2024. The Commission therefore ‘initiated formal infringement proceedings’ on 19 February 2024.

I had previously drawn the Commission’s attention to a US study that concluded that TikTok was likely to ‘systematically promote or downgrade content depending on whether it aligns with the interests of the Chinese Government’.

• 1.What offences has the Commission identified so far?
• 2.What consequences will there be as a result?
• 3.What steps does the Commission plan to take next?

Submitted: 9.4.2025