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Meta should lose bid to block antitrust info requests, EU court opinion says

By Lewis Crofts ( February 26, 2026, 09:25 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms was correctly targeted by information requests from antitrust enforcers and should lose its bid to overturn an EU court ruling that upheld their legality, according to an opinion for the Court of Justice. The tech company is contesting data demanded by the European Commission during a probe of its Facebook platform, but Advocate General Athanasios Rantos suggested the company’s court action should fail. He stressed the commission has a "margin of discretion" in choosing its investigative techniques. Meta Platforms was correctly targeted by information requests from antitrust enforcers and should lose its bid to overturn an EU court ruling that upheld their legality, according to an opinion for the Court of Justice....

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