Mainstream social media platforms could face limits on their ability to take down independent journalism that violates their terms and conditions under a proposal agreed by European Union lawmakers yesterday. In a vote Tuesday, the European parliament set its negotiating position for upcoming talks with the Council on the bloc's draft Media Freedom Act -- taking aim at what MEPs called "arbitrary decisions by big platforms". The text adopted by MEPs expands on the European Commission's original proposal by setting out a requirement for larger platforms (so called very large online platforms, or VLOPs, with more than 45M regional active monthly users) to give media services providers a heads-up of a planned takedown of their content -- providing 24 hours for them to reply to the objections before any restriction or suspension is imposed.