Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model in breach of EU tech rules, says Brussels

In yet another blow to big tech, the EU is charging Meta with breaching the bloc’s sweeping online competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alongside Google and Apple, Meta is among the tech giants (designated as “gatekeepers“) required to comply with the landmark law as of March this year. A mere two weeks after the act kicked in, the European Commission opened an investigation into all three companies, expressing concerns that the measures they introduced were falling short of complying with the DMA.