{"id":36015,"date":"2021-06-04T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36015"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:56:39","slug":"the-european-union-and-the-united-kingdom-on-friday-hit-facebook-with-new-antitrust-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36015","title":{"rendered":"The European Union and the United Kingdom on Friday hit Facebook with new antitrust probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union and the United Kingdom on Friday hit Facebook with new antitrust probes over the platform\u2019s use of data from advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fdhrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddygdnj_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fdhrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddygdnj_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfeupFM5vW0SjNxwUYESx865PijQ\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that it was looking into whether Facebook violated competition rules by using data gathered from advertisers to compete with them in markets where Facebook is active \u2014 particularly classified ads.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is also probing whether the platform ties its \u201cFacebook Marketplace\u201d service to its social network in violation of EU competition rules.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the U.K.\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xdvsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddcjdbb_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xdvsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddcjdbb_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmN8-ldAGrYL-fGVceTXKd-IYhEA\">it will probe<\/a>\u00a0whether Facebook has gained an unfair advantage over competitors in services for online classified ads and online dating through how it gathers and uses data from digital advertising services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union and the United&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36016,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions\/36016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}