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Meta’s block on AI bots over WhatsApp subject to formal EU probe

( December 4, 2025, 10:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a policy rolled out by Meta Platforms to block the distribution of rival AI services over WhatsApp. The probe is under the EU's rules that ban the abuse of market power, but it carves out Italy from its territorial scope, given a parallel investigation by the Italian competition authority. The statement is attached. ...

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