By Jean Comte ( September 18, 2026, 09:52 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms is due to get a decision on Oct. 29 on its appeal against orders from France's competition watchdog to negotiate a payment system for using journalistic content with two media organisations "in good faith," MLex understands. The French Society for Related Rights of the Press, or DVP, and the French Alliance for General News Media, or APIG, have claimed Meta was imposing its own method for calculating payments and withholding key data. The competition authority said Meta's practice was likely to constitute an abuse of dominant position.Meta Platforms is due to get a decision from a Paris court on Oct. 29 on its appeal against orders from France's competition watchdog to negotiate a payment system for using journalistic content with two media organisations "in good faith," MLex understands....
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