Facebook faces fine for misleading EU in WhatsApp takeover

‘The European Commission has found Facebook guilty of providing misleading information before winning approval to buy the WhatsApp messenger in 2014.
Before the merger Facebook told the European competition watchdog it would not be able to establish “reliable automated matching between the two companies’ user accounts.”
According to the Commission, the technical possibility to match ID’s existed in 2014 and that the firm “intentionally or negligently” submitted misleading information, breaking European merger rules.
“The Commission’s preliminary view is that Facebook gave us incorrect or misleading information during the investigation into its acquisition of WhatsApp,” said the EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager.’
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