Organisation: Facebook

The Competition Commission of South Africa is set to probe concerns about the relationship between digital platforms and news publishers, including how new technologies such as ChatGPT use media content.

20 March 2023

Australia’s competition watchdog has launched another market study into digital platforms, as its latest probe examines the “expanding ecosystems” of Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

08 March 2023

A class representative suing Meta and Google in Australia for allegedly conspiring to ban all crypto-related advertising has offered commitments to resolve a perceived conflict of interest stemming from his dual roles as class representative and head of the litigation funder.

03 February 2023

Counsel to Facebook and Google have argued that an Australian court should dismiss a class action alleging they conspired to ban all crypto-related advertising because the class representative also runs the company funding the lawsuit.

02 February 2023

Greece’s Competition Commission has identified weaknesses in the country’s growing financial technology market that could allow large and more established technology companies to exploit their access to data and foreclose start-ups.

04 January 2023

The European Commission has alleged that Meta unlawfully bundled Facebook with its Marketplace feature and imposed unfair conditions on rival online classified advertising services, while dropping a probe into the company’s online advertising agreement with Google.

19 December 2022

A federal judge has probed Within Unlimited’s president on why the virtual reality company chose not “stay in the game” as he presides over the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to block its sale to Meta Platforms.

15 December 2022