Antitrust investigation: Commission wants answers from Meta

The antitrust investigation against Meta reaches the next stage: The Commission is of the – preliminary – opinion that the US company Meta violates EU antitrust rules in the markets for online classifieds. The Commission objects to Meta linking its online classifieds service Facebook Marketplace with its dominant social network Facebook. It also fears that Meta is imposing unfair trading conditions on Facebook Marketplace’s competitors, from which its own service benefits.