"Meta tied ... Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network Facebook and imposed unfair trading conditions on other online classified ads service providers," EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager asserted in a statement. "It did so to benefit its own service Facebook Marketplace, thereby giving it advantages that other online classified ads service providers could not match."
"This is illegal under EU antitrust rules. Meta must now stop this behavior," Vestager added.
Meta disagreed in a statement put out Thursday about the EC decision, which it said hinges largely on hypothetical harms to competitors absent any real evidence.
"The European Commission's decision claims that Meta imposes Facebook Marketplace on people who use Facebook in an illegal 'tie,'" Mark Zuckerberg's Meta relied. "But that argument ignores the fact that Facebook users can choose whether or not to engage with Marketplace, and many don't."
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