is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by the Financial Times. The EU later opened an investigation into Temu over concerns that it’s not doing enough to keep illegal products off its ultra-cheap marketplace. Temu now has a chance to respond to the EU’s findings. If the EU ultimately finds that Temu did violate its rules, the platform could face fees of up to 6 percent of its global annual revenue.