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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: EU Demands TikTok App Redesign

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Trump’s tax law cuts Amazon’s corporate tax bill by more than half. And Stellantis books $26 billion charges over bad EV bets. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, February 6th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.4

The European Commission has said TikTok must redesign its app due to concerns that features like Infinite Scroll,

0:44.3

autoplay, and its personalized algorithm are addictive and violate the Blogs Digital Services Act.

0:50.4

The European Union's executive arm said TikTok might not have done enough to adequately assess

0:55.5

how its app design could harm users' physical and mental well-being. It noted existing screen time

1:01.2

and parental controls don't seem to reduce addiction risk. A TikTok spokesperson called the EU

1:06.8

regulators' claims false and meritless. Amazon saw its U.S. corporate income taxes shrink by more than half in 2025, while its

1:16.8

profits climbed.

1:18.4

That's thanks to a new tax law signed by President Trump last July.

1:22.7

According to a securities filing released today, the company's taxes incurred last year declined to $1.2 billion

1:29.9

from $9 billion. On a cash basis, Amazon paid less than $3 billion in federal income taxes last

1:38.2

year. It had paid more than $7 billion in each of the prior two years. The figures offer one of the clearest examples yet of how the

1:46.4

largest U.S. companies are benefiting from the tax cuts, which are also boosting individual tax refunds

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