Organisation: Instagram

Meta should settle a private lawsuit in Australia accusing the company of illegally removing a rival post-scheduling service from Instagram, a judge has said.

21 June 2024

Turning 10 years old today, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority marked the occasion by boasting about its enforcement efforts. To date, the agency says it has launched over 1400 cases, projects and investigations and returned at least £15.6 billion in savings to consumers. Also in The Briefing, Meta complies with an interim injunction by shutting down its Threads social networking service and GSK pays a no-poach fine in Turkey.

16 April 2024

Artificial Intelligence continues to capture the attention of competition enforcers in the US, UK and EU – and now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants a go. It said today it’s examining the emergence of generative AI tools like ChatGPT as part of a “revisited” market study into internet search – factoring in key developments like the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Also in The Briefing, Turkey’s antitrust enforcer imposes an interim injunction on Meta and the Swiss government floats sweeping reforms for its competition enforcer.

18 March 2024

DuckDuckGo, Epic Games and a slew of industry groups believe Google’s latest efforts to meet the imminent Digital Markets Act compliance deadline fail to adequately address the harms the regulation seeks to prevent.

06 March 2024

How do you measure a year in the life of a digital gatekeeper? In complying with the DMA, Meta says its engineers spent 590,000 hours – or more than 67 years – making sure its systems will appease the European Commission. Also in The Briefing, Squire Patton Boggs announces partner promotions on either side of the English Channel and the commission publishes its annual competition report. 

06 March 2024

It would be “profoundly unjust” and “premature” for the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to dismiss Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s revised class action claim against Meta, counsel to the claimant has argued.

09 January 2024

Meta has urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal not to certify Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s revised class action claim, saying it is merely a “repackaged” form of the original in certain aspects and the methodology is “divorced from reality”.

08 January 2024

FIFA and UEFA abused their dominance when they arbitrarily banned football clubs from breaking away to form a European Super League, the EU’s highest court has ruled.

21 December 2023

Meta is under investigation in Turkey for allegedly abusing its dominance by tying its Threads platform with Instagram. 

12 December 2023

Meta and TikTok have challenged aspects of their designations under the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

16 November 2023