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Meta accused of breaching EU antitrust rules over ad-supported subscription service
Meta was on Monday accused by EU regulators of failing to comply with the bloc's landmark antitrust rules over its ad-supported social networking service.
Facebook parent company Meta was on Monday accused by EU regulators of failing to comply with the bloc's landmark antitrust rules over its recently introduced ad-supported social networking service. "In the Commission's preliminary view, this binary choice forces users to consent to the combination of their personal data and fails to provide them a less personalised but equivalent version of Meta's social networks," regulators said in a statement Monday. In Meta's case, if it were to be found in breach of the DMA in the Commission's final findings, it could be slapped with a penalty as high as $13.4 billion, based on the company's 2023 annual earnings numbers.
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