Apple and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, were fined nearly $800 million total Tuesday for breaking the European Union’s (EU) antitrust rules for digital markets. The

BRUSSELS—The European Union fined Apple and Meta Platforms hundreds of millions of dollars and ordered the companies to comply with the bloc’s tech rules, a move that risks ratcheting up tensions with the Trump administration as EU officials pursue trade talks.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.