EU and UK to probe Facebook for unfair advertising data use

By Nihal Krishan

Published June 4, 2021 4:15pm ET

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The competition authorities for the European Union and the United Kingdom on Friday opened antitrust investigations into whether Facebook uses data from advertisers to give itself an upper hand.

The European Commission is focusing its investigation on Facebook’s use of data from competing providers that advertise on the platform to help outcompete them on Facebook Marketplace, a feature where Facebook users can buy and sell goods from one another.

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