Meta dismisses OLX, Schibsted criticism of EU Marketplace remedy
By Lewis Crofts ( March 7, 2025, 16:02 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms’ “complete redesign” of Facebook Marketplace to comply with an EU antitrust order creates more choice for users and is seeing smaller services sign up to compete with “legacy incumbents” such as Schibsted Marketplaces and OLX Group, according to the company's lead competition lawyer in Europe. Tim Lamb said new entrants were benefitting from the changes to its platform, which offered a "richer" choice, and he rejected "blanket assertions" by complainants. Meta Platforms’ “complete redesign” of Facebook Marketplace to comply with an EU antitrust order creates more choice for users and is seeing smaller services sign up to compete with “legacy incumbents” such as Schibsted Marketplaces and OLX Group, according to the company's lead competition lawyer in Europe....
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