‘ByteDance’ Loses Court Challenge against EU’s Gatekeeper Designation

TikTok owner ByteDance lost its court challenge against being designated as a gatekeeper under landmark EU tech rules, in a boost for EU antitrust regulators seeking to rein in the power of Big Tech. The Luxembourg-based General Court observed that the company met the DMA’s quantitative thresholds, regarding its global market value, the number of TikTok users within the European Union and the number of years during which that threshold relating to user numbers had been met.