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Is Meta opening WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots just to avoid tougher EU action? Here's what happenedMeta has offered rival AI chatbots limited free access to WhatsApp in Europe, with charges to be implemented after a usage threshold is met...
Meta offers AI rival chatbots limited free WhatsApp access, sources sayMeta Platforms has offered European AI chatbots free access to its WhatsApp messaging service, with charges to be implemented after a usage...
Meta to allow AI rivals on WhatsApp in bid to stave off EU actionThe European Commission, the EU's competition enforcer, last month threatened interim measures to prevent potential serious and irreparable...
FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decisionThe FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta Platforms Inc. has "illegally maintained a monopoly" in social netwo...
Technology is fast and the courts are slowA US judge ruled Meta did not illegally crush competition when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp, pointing to rising rivals like TikTok and ...
US judge rules Meta purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp did not stifle competitionThe ruling is a major setback for the US Federal Trade Commission, which is pursuing a separate antitrust case against Amazon. The agency s...
Meta AI chatbots engage in sexually explicit chats with minors: ReportIn one case reported by WSJ, a chatbot using actor and wrestler John Cena’s voice described a graphic sexual scenario to a user identifying...
At Meta trial, Sheryl Sandberg defends tactics with rivalsSheryl Sandberg, former Meta COO, testified in the FTC's landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of illegally suppressing competition by blo...
On the stand, Zuckerberg says TikTok is a major competitive threatMark Zuckerberg testified for a third day in an antitrust trial, calling TikTok a major threat to Meta. The FTC accuses Meta of buying Inst...
US argues Meta built a social media monopolyThe FTC has launched a landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of illegally monopolizing social media by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to...
US prepares to challenge Meta's social media dominanceMeta has countered that it faces ample competition in social media from TikTok, Snap, Reddit and LinkedIn, and that regulators approved the...
Donald Trump admin to press ahead with Amazon, Meta antitrust casesIn an interview with FOX Business, newly appointed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson confirmed that ongoing cases agains...
Amazon and Meta settle UK investigations with pledges to refrain from unfair practicesThe Competition and Markets Authority said it accepted the committments from the US tech companies to close the investigations into their o...
Meta to contest EU antitrust charges at July 13 hearingThe European Commission sent a charge sheet to the world's most popular social network last December, singling out two practices that showe...
Meta loses as top EU court backs antitrust regulators over privacy breach checksAntitrust authorities overseeing firms such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms are entitled to also assess privacy breaches, Europe's top cou...
German antitrust watchdog can add privacy breaches to Meta probe, EU court saysThe case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerns a 2019 German cartel office order to Meta to st...
Italy's antitrust takes steps against Meta in music rights caseLast month, Meta, which owns Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, failed to reach a deal with the Italian society of authors and publishers SI...
Feuding law firms in Facebook antitrust case told to make peaceIn a court order, U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco appointed Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sull...
German antitrust watchdog may assess Meta's privacy obligations, court adviser saysA competition authority may, in exercising its powers, take account of the compatibility of a commercial practice with the General Data Pro...
Google asks judge to dismiss most of Texas antitrust lawsuitGoogle said in its court filing that the states failed to show that it illegally worked with Facebook, now Meta, to counter "header bidding...