{"id":259364,"date":"2021-05-26T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eu-reportedly-set-to-open-formal-antitrust-probe-into-facebook\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:47:29","slug":"eu-reportedly-set-to-open-formal-antitrust-probe-into-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eu-reportedly-set-to-open-formal-antitrust-probe-into-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"#EU reportedly set to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#EU reportedly set to open formal antitrust probe into <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>European regulators are reportedly set to open a formal probe into whether Facebook has violated antitrust laws by undermining rivals in the classified advertising market.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has already sent questionnaires to Facebook and its rivals asking whether the tech giant is warping the classified advertising business by promoting its online marketplace for free to its users, the Financial Times <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3750ad46-04c3-4010-9fc1-fe2427c8520c\">reported Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is one of the few US Big Tech companies that\u2019s managed to escape formal antitrust scrutiny from the European Union so far. The EU had previously investigated Microsoft, Amazon, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le and Google, with most of those probes launched in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of a formal probe by the EU could come in days, but the timing and the scope of the investigation are still being discussed, the FT reported, citing three senior people with direct knowledge of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Facebook did not immediately return The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S.\" class=\"wp-image-18345314 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/facebook-antitrust-87.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/facebook-antitrust-87.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/facebook-antitrust-87.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/facebook-antitrust-87.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/facebook-antitrust-87.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now facing an antitrust probe by the European Union.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>European antitrust regulators previously sent questionnaires to Facebook in 2019 about its marketplace service, according to Reuters. And last year, European regulators sent another round of questionnaires, asking whether Facebook Marketplace benefits unfairly from the massive amounts of data the social media giant collects, Reuters previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>In July of last year, Facebook sued EU antitrust regulators for seeking information they said was beyond what\u2019s necessary for their investigations into the company\u2019s data and marketplace.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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