From the article: "In particular, [they] opposed proposals that would have forced them to be more transparent about their business models" Hm. It's not immedi

From the article: "In particular, [they] opposed proposals that would have forced them to be more transparent about their business models" Hm. It's not immediately clear to me why fake news regulation would require Google and FB to share more information about their business models with the EU. I also feel that in the wake of a large number of EU fines, laws, decisions etc that specifically attack FB and Google, it's perhaps not unreasonable that there might be some scepticism that the EU would not abuse this information to levy yet further fines. Some reasonable people might argue that a number of the EU fines have been justified - possibly in isolation I might agree with one or two - but there are also less defensible examples, such as defining "free mobile operating systems" as a market sector separate from all other operating systems and platforms, to allow them to find Google guilty of a monopoly. I feel like the EU is trying to have it both ways here - it seems unreasonable for the EU to spend so much time attacking big tech firms and then to expect them to welcome further regulation.