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Dropping Marketplace from EU gatekeeper law was slow and costly, Meta says

By Lewis Crofts ( July 3, 2025, 12:05 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms has criticized the way the European Commission regulated — and subsequently dropped — its Facebook Marketplace from regulation under a digital gatekeeper law, saying the “stop and go process” was costly. It said there was a responsibility to avoid an “unnecessary and inefficient regulatory burden” under the Digital Markets Act. At a public workshop in Brussels, Meta also faced questions about whether it provided users with an easy choice to access its social networks with “less personalized ads.”Meta Platforms has criticized the way the European Commission regulated — and then dropped — its Facebook Marketplace from a digital gatekeeper law, saying the “stop and go process” was costly....

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