Meta's WhatsApp pushes back against Italy’s pending chatbot injunction
By Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst ( November 26, 2025, 17:22 GMT | Insight) -- Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp has rejected the Italian antitrust authority’s claim that the tech giant may be harming competition by moving to exclude rival artificial intelligence chatbots. The Italian Competition Authority has started an injunction procedure against Meta which would force it to freeze its October move to ban rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp.Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp has rejected the Italian antitrust authority’s claim that the tech giant may be harming competition by moving to exclude rival artificial intelligence chatbots....
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