Meta Attacks German ‘All-or-Nothing’ Assault on Facebook
- EU top court weighs antitrust watchdog’s investigative powers
- Meta says 2019 decision wrongly conflated data, antitrust laws
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Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook attacked Germany’s competition watchdog for taking an “all-or-nothing approach” conflating data protection and antitrust law to seek an unprecedented overhaul of the firm’s business model.
The Federal Cartel Office’s strategy led to a “clearly flawed” decision in 2019 targeting the social-media giant’s business practices, lawyers for Meta told the European Union’s Court of Justice at a hearing on Tuesday.