U.S. Crackdown on Facebook Gets Thumbs Up From EU’s Vestager
- Germany starts antitrust probe into Facebook’s Oculus
- Antitrust chief tells lawmakers the debate on tech is shifting
Margrethe Vestager
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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust chief and scourge of tech giants, gave her seal of approval to U.S. antitrust action against Facebook Inc.
She told lawmakers in Brussels that the U.S. lawsuit shows how technology superpowers are increasingly facing tougher scrutiny around the world. Minutes after she spoke Thursday, German regulators started a fresh antitrust probe into Facebook’s Oculus virtual-reality headsets.