EU - Facebook fined by EU over Whatsapp deal: euronews (in English)

euronews (in English)

Published on 18 May 2017

Facebook has been fined €110 million by European Commission anti-trust regulators during a review of its 2014 purchase of messaging service Whatsapp.

The social network was found to have given misleading information by incorrectly saying it could not match up user accounts on the two platforms, according to regulators.

According to the Commission, in 2014 Facebook said it could not automatically match user accounts on the two platforms - but two years later launched a service doing exactly tha…

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