What are EU social media alternatives to Instagram, TikTok?
Key takeaways
- Opaque algorithms, too little legal protection for minors, a lot of hate speech and disinformation: in Europe, US and Chinese social media platforms have long drawn criticism.
- These and other tech corporations have become huge and powerful.
- Large corporations such as Meta or ByteDance wield enormous market power — up to 3 billion Instagram users and nearly 2 billion TikTok users speak for themselves.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Opaque algorithms, too little legal protection for minors, a lot of hate speech and disinformation: in Europe, US and Chinese social media platforms have long drawn criticism. Europe wants to go its own way — but how?
https://p.dw.com/p/5Ekok Mastodon is Germany's answer to X, formerly Twitter Image: Thomas Trutschel/photothek/picture alliance Advertisement Instagram and Facebook from Meta, X (formerly Twitter) from Elon Musk, Tik Tok from Byte Dance — billions of social media users interact with these products every day.
These and other tech corporations have become huge and powerful. But in recent years, the European Union has made a considerable effort to limit their influence. DW has the most important questions and answers.