Samuel Stolton of Bloomberg tells his readers that Apple, Google, and Meta are being probed by the EU in a test of the Digital Markets Act. He writes:
Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. face the risk of potentially hefty fines as the European Union opened a full-blown investigation into the firms’ compliance with strict new laws reining in the power of Big Tech.
The European Commission said Monday that Apple and Google’s app store rules will be targeted in the first probes under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, how Google search results might unfairly preference its own services and how Apple may make it harder for users to choose alternatives to its Safari browser. […]
Last year, Google faced its fourth EU abuse of dominance case in recent years — with the Brussels watchdog probing the firm’s conduct in advertising technology. This came following fines of over €8 billion from the EU, as part of three other decisions that are still being challenged through the bloc’s courts.
Meta, meanwhile, continues to face an ongoing EU abuse of dominance investigation into Facebook Marketplace, which the commission alleges harms competition for classified ad rivals.
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