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Europe's new Digital Markets Act aims to make larger messaging platforms interoperable' with smaller ones. No wonder the tech titans are running scared

The passage of GDPR (general data protection regulation) might seem like ancient history - as does everything before 2020 - but in legislative terms it was a mere blink of an eye ago and now the European Union has moved on to the next big thing. Prepare to start hearing a lot about the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

It's one of two bills currently going through the EU's institutions, alongside the confusingly similar Digital Services Act (DSA). As a rough split, the DSA is about the things that platforms host: it covers issues such as child sexual abuse imagery, content moderation and algorithmic curation.