Meta's WhatsApp AI chatbot ban probed by Turkey’s antitrust enforcer
By Nicholas Hirst ( April 15, 2026, 12:53 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms faces expanding global scrutiny of its WhatsApp ban on third-party AI chatbots, with Turkey's competition authority quizzing market players as part of a new probe. Meta Platforms’s ejection of third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp has prompted Turkey’s competition authority to quiz market players, MLex has learned. ...
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