Turkey\u2019s competition authority imposed on Monday an interim measure on Meta Platforms Inc meant to hinder data sharing between the Instagram and Threads platforms as it investigates possible abuse of the company\u2019s dominant market position.
\nIn December, the authority launched an investigation into Facebook parent Meta META.Oover a possible violation of competition law by linking its social media platforms Instagram and the newer Threads.
\nThe authority said the interim measure would remain in place until a final decision is made, since the data obtained and merged through these two apps could \u201cviolate competition law and cause irreparable damage\u201d in the market.
\nSeparately, the Turkish authority fined Meta 4.8 million lira ($148,000) daily as part of a separate investigation over a notification message that the company sends users about the sharing of data.
\nThe notification about data sharing between the company\u2019s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services did not provide sufficient information and was not transparent enough, it said.
\nThe user notification was also designed to guide users to approve data sharing which was not deemed sufficient to address anti-competition concerns, it added.
\nA Meta spokesperson did not immediately comment on the decisions.
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Turkey’s competition authority imposed an interim measure on Meta Platforms Inc to prevent data sharing between Instagram and Threads during an investigation into potential abuse of market dominance. The investigation, launched in December, examines Meta’s linking of Instagram and Threads for possible competition law violations. The interim measure aims to prevent irreparable market damage until a final decision is reached. Additionally, Meta was fined 4.8 million lira (8,000) daily in a separate case for insufficiently transparent user notifications about data sharing between Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The notifications were criticized for not adequately addressing anti-competition concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1521,732,279,426,2417,2369,2418,249,1419,252,687,2416,1806,817,177,170,483,18],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-1521","tag-apps","tag-comment","tag-competition","tag-competition-authority","tag-data","tag-data-sharing","tag-facebook","tag-investigation","tag-meta","tag-meta-platforms","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-services","tag-social-media","tag-turkey","tag-violation","tag-violations","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n