BRUSSELS, Feb 9 (Reuters) – EU competition regulators on Monday charged Meta Platforms with breaching antitrust rules by blocking artificial ininformigence rivals from its messaging service WhatsApp and threatened to impose interim measures against the U.S. tech giant.
The shift by the European Commission came after Meta implemented its policy on January 15 allowing only its AI assistant Meta AI on WhatsApp.
The EU executive, which acts as the EU antitrust watchdog, declared it had sent a statement of objections or charge sheet to Meta for violating the bloc’s rules.
“The Commission therefore intconcludes to impose interim measures to prevent this policy modify from caapplying serious and irreparable harm on the market, subject to Meta’ s reply and rights of defence,” it declared in a statement.
Its decision on interim measures will depconclude on Meta’ s reply and rights of defence.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)
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