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Facebook faces formal EU probe into dominance-abuse concerns

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 26 May 2021 09:19
  • 26 May 2021 09:19
Facebook is facing a formal EU antitrust investigation, in a sign the European Commission is escalating concerns the company has abused a dominant position, MLex has learned.
EU investigators have already quizzed market players over concerns that Facebook may have leveraged its website and app, which has billions of users

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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