EU charges Meta with breaching antitrust rules

The tech giant’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the bloc’s new digital competition law, according to the European Commission

EU antitrust regulators have charged that Facebook parent company Meta’s new ad-supported social networking service fails to comply with the bloc’s landmark tech rules.

The social-media company’s recently introduced ‘pay or consent’ advertising model violates the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) the European Commission (EC) stated on Monday.