Fourteen platforms exceed 45 million users. The major web platforms had until Friday evening February 17 to transmit their number of active users per month to the European authorities under the Digital Services Regulation (DSA). The aim is to determine those who will be subject to Vlop (Very Large Online Platform) status, beyond 45 million users in the EU, a threshold which will subject them to stricter European rules and higher fines. . It should be noted that economics professor Martin Husovec has launched a collaborative initiative to collect this data in open data concerning all platforms, available here.
