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khatunhumaira
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Which was the result of a years-long investigation.

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Back in 2022, the EU Commission alleged french guiana b2b leads that Facebook was breaching local antitrust regulations by “distorting competition in markets for online classified ads” and abusing its dominant position.

The Commission’s view was that Facebook was using the scale of its social network to give Facebook Marketplace an unfair advantage over other online classifieds providers, while also imposing unfair trading conditions on competing online classified ads services that sought to advertise on Facebook or Instagram.

That investigation eventually resulted in that huge massive fine, and now, Meta’s exploring new ways to comply with EU regulations on this front to avoid further penalty.

This new eBay integration is set to be one of several integrations designed to water down Marketplace dominance, and provide a level playing field for online classified providers.

And while I’m not sure that I conceptually agree with the EU findings, Meta’s scale does give it a significant advantage, in many respects, and if it has been penalizing competitors by restricting its ads, there does seem to be some case there.

Though it also could be argued that such measures suppress competition, and I’m not sure that forcing platforms to open up their systems to competitors addresses that in the way EU officials seem to think. It also seems like a potential disincentive for business expansion in the region.
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