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October 23, 2025
Media
TECH

Tech Giants Eye Taking MAJOR Stake in American Media and Entertainment.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Warner Bros. Discovery has reportedly received unsolicited interest from multiple parties, including Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, regarding a potential acquisition.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Paramount, and Comcast.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The developments were reported on October 23, 2025, with discussions ongoing regarding the company’s potential sale or restructuring.

🎯IMPACT: The potential sale or restructuring of Warner Bros. Discovery could significantly reshape the entertainment and streaming industries, expanding Big Tech’s influence in the media and entertainment sectors.

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Big Tech’s influence over American media and entertainment could soon drastically expand with Warner Bros. Discovery announcing that it is reviewing “strategic alternatives” to maximize shareholder value after receiving unsolicited interest from multiple parties. Concerningly, among the rumored potential buyers are tech giants Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, who are reportedly interested in acquiring either the entire company or specific assets like content libraries and production facilities.

The company has already turned down three offers from Paramount, including one as high as $24 per share. Paramount recently completed a merger with Skydance Media, which could complicate its ability to pursue another major acquisition.

Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns major properties such as HBO, CNN, DC Studios, and its namesake film studio, has also received inquiries from Comcast. Earlier this year, Comcast—which owns NBCUniversal—announced it was dumping MSNBC, with the far-left cable network subsequently rebranding as My Source News Opinion World (MS NOW) under its new owner, Versant.

The potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery comes as the company plans to split its cable TV and streaming businesses next year. This move could make it easier for buyers to acquire specific portions of the business rather than the entire company.

In July, The National Pulse reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) joined a lawsuit brought by a group challenging alleged collusion by Big Tech companies and corporate media entities, alleging they unlawfully conspired to throttle independent media competitors by labeling their reporting as “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Netflix, Amazon, or Apple’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery is likely to similarly solicit considerable scrutiny from the Trump administration.

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September 22, 2025
TECH

Trump DOJ Moves to Dismantle Google’s Ad Empire in Antitrust Push.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Google is facing a federal trial over its alleged monopoly in digital advertising technology, following a ruling in which parts of its ad network were deemed illegal.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), Google, and U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The trial begins Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, and is expected to extend through November.

🎯IMPACT: The case could lead to a breakup of Google’s ad technology, potentially upturning a $305 billion revenue stream which is partially reliant on digital ad sales.

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Google is facing a federal trial in Alexandria, Virginia, over allegations that its digital advertising technology constitutes an illegal monopoly. U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema previously ruled that parts of Google‘s ad network stifled competition and harmed online publishers dependent on advertising revenue.

The trial will determine remedies to restore fair market conditions, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) advocating for a breakup of Google’s ad technology. Google, however, has pushed back, warning that such a move would “invite disruption and damage” to consumers and the broader online ecosystem.

This legal battle follows a similar case involving Google’s search engine, where the DOJ sought significant measures to address its monopoly status. In that instance, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta opted for less drastic changes, citing advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology reshaping the market.

Google’s lawyers have argued that AI-driven innovations by competitors, such as Meta Platforms, are already transforming the digital advertising landscape, making the DOJ’s proposals outdated. The company plans to appeal any adverse rulings once remedies are finalized.

The outcome of this trial could have significant implications for Google’s $305 billion advertising business and the thousands of websites that rely on its ad services for revenue. Judge Brinkema has not set a timeline for her decision, with proceedings expected to continue into November.

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September 15, 2025
Raheem J. Kassam
News

EXC: Trump FTC Commissioner to Declare ‘No Meaningful Populism Without Antitrust.’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The National Pulse has had an exclusive first look at FTC Commissioner Mark Meador’s crucial antitrust speech.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Mark Meador, FTC Commissioner, and the Trump administration.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Meador will deliver the address this evening at the 13th Bill Kovacic Antitrust Salon in Washington, D.C.

💬KEY QUOTE: “There’s no meaningful populism, no pro-worker or pro-family agenda, that doesn’t include antitrust enforcement.” – Mark Meador

🎯IMPACT: The speech underscores a push for renewed antitrust enforcement to benefit working families.

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The National Pulse has seen the details of a speech to be delivered by FTC Commissioner Mark Meador, who is expected to declare at the 13th Bill Kovacic Antitrust Salon in Washington, D.C. on Monday evening: “Antitrust is back!”

Meador is expected to cast the Biden- and Obama-era approach to corporate consolidation as a betrayal of the law, using a speech to frame the Trump administration’s revival of antitrust as a populist course correction.

He argues in the speech that ordinary Americans have lost control over their livelihoods as decisions about jobs, wages, housing, healthcare, and even political speech have shifted to distant corporate boardrooms. “When corporate size increases to the extremes we see today,” he said, “it often means that important decisions are made at a greater and greater remove from those they affect.”

While stressing that antitrust is not a partisan football, Meador credited President Trump and Vice President Vance for giving voice to the working people “who’ve borne the full cost of economic change and haven’t reaped the returns.” He ties the modern enforcement push to the same democratic impulse that produced the Sherman and Clayton Acts more than a century ago.

The Commissioner criticizes courts for repeatedly watering down laws passed by Congress and warns against underenforcement and politicization. “Antitrust underenforcement is as much a betrayal of the law as partisan antitrust enforcement would be,” he is expected to state.

Citing tech giants’ power to addict children, harvest data, suppress speech during COVID, and bully governments, as well as private equity’s role in driving up housing costs, Meador argues that renewed antitrust enforcement is essential to restoring “dignity and freedom” to working families.

“There’s no meaningful populism, no pro-worker or pro-family agenda, that doesn’t include antitrust enforcement. I’m grateful that President Trump and Vice President Vance understand that. And I’m honored to serve that mission,” he will conclude.

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July 29, 2025
William Upton
Corruption

‘Grifters and Lobbyists’ Pushing AG Bondi to Gut Trump DOJ’s Antitrust Efforts.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Two key U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division staffers have been fired after pressure from corporate interests and lobbyists aiming to undermine President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to rein in business monopolies.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The DOJ Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, Roger Alford, Bill Rinner, Attorney General Pam Bondi, DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle, investigative journalist Laura Loomer, The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, lobbyists, and major corporations.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The DOJ Antitrust Division firings were confirmed on Monday, July 28, 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “What if I told you this was happening because greedy, fake-MAGA world grifters and lobbyists are upset that the antitrust team was actually doing their job instead of taking cash from big corporates to turn a blind eye to monopolistic practices?” — Raheem Kassam

🎯IMPACT: The firings raise serious concerns about the future direction of the Antitrust Division and whether the White House will continue to back an America First agenda opposing the consolidation of corporate power.

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Two of the top antitrust officials at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have been fired following internal tensions. The firings of Roger Alford and Bill Rinner—both deputies to Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater—raise serious concerns that the nation’s top law enforcement agency is gutting its ability to tackle and restrict consolidation among corporations and the influence of multi-nationals.

“What if I told you this was happening because greedy, fake-MAGA world grifters and lobbyists are upset that the antitrust team was actually doing their job instead of taking cash from big corporates to turn a blind eye to monopolistic practices?” The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “Another giant L for Pam Bondi here too, btw. She signed off on this. Remember, her last job was as a lobbyist for nations like Qatar and corporates like Uber, General Motors, and Amazon.”

Slater, a leading voice among conservative and populist legal minds who have broken with the political establishment and pushed for more aggressive antitrust enforcement, has been a significant target of criticism from lobbyists representing entrenched big business and Wall Street interests. These political and corporate establishment interests are upset that Slater and the DOJ Antitrust Division are not rubber-stamping merger requests. Instead, they are fulfilling their legal duty, investigating the market impact of corporate consolidation.

Investigative journalist Laura Loomer, in now-deleted social media posts, accused DOJ staff close to Attorney General Pam Bondi of influence peddling, suggesting the Antitrust Division firings were because of lobbyist complaints, including an effort by Ticketmaster and Live Nation to see the antitrust case against them dropped. According to Loomer’s posts, DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle is at the center of the controversy, having intervened and overruled department decisions that could be seen as opposed to corporate interests.

“Now that [Chad Mizelle] has made it clear he is open for business at the DOJ to the highest bidder, other consultants are now putting big price tags on their lobby efforts to influence the DOJ to settle even more anti-Trust cases,” Loomer wrote.

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July 3, 2025
Media
TECH

Trump DOJ Targets Media-Tech Alliance in Antitrust Lawsuit.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has entered a legal battle involving allegations that major media outlets and tech corporations coordinated to suppress independent journalism through the Trusted News Initiative (TNI).

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Plaintiffs include Children’s Health Defense (CHD), independent publishers, and reporters. Defendants include TNI participants such as the BBC, Reuters, The Associated Press (AP), The Washington Post, and tech firms like Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The lawsuit was filed in 2023, with the DOJ filing its notice of intent last week in federal court.

💬KEY QUOTE: The DOJ highlighted the CHD lawsuit’s focus on “anticompetitive collusion among competitors over product features” as of particular interest.

🎯IMPACT: The DOJ’s involvement could signal a shift in addressing anticompetitive practices and bolster the plaintiffs’ case against TNI.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is entering a legal battle challenging an alliance between establishment media outlets and technology corporations accused of stifling independent journalism. According to the lead plaintiff, the Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the Trusted News Initiative (TNI)—a BBC-led international consortium that includes the likes of Reuters, The Associated Press (AP), and The Washington Post—unlawfully coordinated with technology companies to throttle independent media competitors by labeling their reporting as “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

In federal filings, the plaintiffs argue that the collusion between TNI and the technology industry constitutes a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, contending the scheme is an anti-competitive practice. While the lawsuit was initially filed in 2023, it languished in federal court until last week, when the DOJ indicated it would soon submit a statement of interest in the case. Notably, a statement of interest is a filing where the DOJ informs a court of its stance on a particular legal issue or argument. Specifically, the DOJ highlighted the CHD lawsuit’s focus on “anticompetitive collusion among competitors over product features” as of particular interest.

Mary Holland, the CEO of CHD, welcomed the Trump administration’s involvement in the case, which could help advance the lawsuit. Plaintiffs argue that the collusion between TNI and social media companies resulted in shadow bans and targeted content removals under the guise of fighting “disinformation.” The plaintiffs state these measures were aimed at restricting their media reach and ability to conduct business.

Founded by the BBC’s former Chief of Staff, Jessica Cecil, TNI publicly presents itself as an international coalition of media outlets, technology corporations, and social media companies working to counter “disinformation.” However, CHD and its co-plaintiffs contend that the organization’s true purpose is to protect the corporate media’s market monopoly, using anti-competitive practices to stifle independent news companies.

In court filings, they cite comments by figures close to TNI’s operations, like former BBC news controller Jamie Angus, who stated that independent media competitors had unleashed “a tidal wave of unchecked [reporting] that’s being piped out mainly through digital platforms.”

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June 23, 2025
William Upton
Economy
Health

ICYMI: Trump DOJ Scores Historic Win for Workers in Antitrust Case.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump’s Justice Department secured a landmark criminal antitrust conviction against a home healthcare staffing executive for orchestrating a wage-fixing scheme aimed at suppressing the wages of home healthcare nurses in the Las Vegas area.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Abigail A. Slater, federal prosecutors, defendant Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez, Las Vegas area home healthcare companies, and home healthcare nurses.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The criminal conviction was issued in April 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Wage-fixing agreements are nakedly unlawful attempts at unjustly profiting off American workers.” — Assistant Attorney General Abigail A. Slater.

🎯IMPACT: The jury verdict marks the first successful criminal conviction against individuals accused of wage-fixing and labor market collusion.

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a historic antitrust jury verdict against a home healthcare executive over a wage-fixing scheme in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In April this year, federal prosecutors secured the criminal conviction of Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez—a home healthcare staffing executive who served with three separate home healthcare agencies—for conspiring with a number of healthcare staffing agencies to suppress the wages of home health nurses in the Las Vegas area and defrauding buyers of his staffing services by concealing the ongoing federal antitrust investigation against him.
Notably, the case marks a significant legal landmark for the DOJ, affirming its legal authority to pursue criminal charges against individuals accused of wage-fixing and labor market collusion. Prior attempts at criminal prosecution on similar charges had failed to secure a conviction.
At trial, DOJ prosecutors revealed that Lopez had orchestrated, between 2016 and 2019, a wage-fixing conspiracy aimed at artificially suppressing the wages of home health nurses in the Las Vegas area. The scheme saw Lopez and several other home healthcare executives enter into a covert agreement to set the hourly wages for nurses, insulating their companies from labor market forces. Federal prosecutors successfully argued that the wage-fixing scheme was akin to price-fixing in labor markets and that each incidence of wage suppression should be treated as per se violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Lopez’s communications with the executives of other area home healthcare agencies proved pivotal. In one message shown to jurors, Lopez wrote to an executive at an ostensibly competing agency, “We all have a mutual agreement that with the pay increase, all 3 companies will stay within the same hourly rate.” The April verdict saw Lopez convicted on five criminal counts, including one antitrust charge and four wire fraud charges.
Assistant Attorney General Abigail A. Slater, who leads the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, praised the conviction: “Wage-fixing agreements are nakedly unlawful attempts at unjustly profiting off American workers.” She added that the “verdict highlights what should be a clear message with antitrust crimes: the agreement is the crime. The Antitrust Division will zealously prosecute those who seek to unjustly profit off their employees. The nurses here deserved better and, under President Trump’s leadership, they will be protected.”
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March 24, 2025
William Upton
News

REVEALED: U.S. Govt Pays DEI-Obsessed German Firm Influencing Corporate America.

There is an ongoing push for President Donald J. Trump to cut ties between federal financial regulators and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The foreign-owned financial services company acts as a proxy advisory firm, providing proxy voting services and data to corporate shareholders—and pushes radical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Proxy voting is a practice in which an outside advisory company, like ISS, is hired to act on behalf of institutional shareholders in various companies. Essentially, ISS is contracted to act on behalf of the shareholders, including executing votes on corporate policies and executive leadership in the companies in which the corporate client holds shares. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has criticized the practice—and specifically the actions of ISS— calling the firm “incompetent” and arguing they are “owned by the NGOs” beholden to leftist policy interests.

ISS AND THE SEC.

ISS’s primary federal relationships are with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which has paid the firm an estimated $1.3 million since 2009 for access to proxy vote data and other financial information. Additionally, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has paid out thousands of taxpayer dollars for access to ISS’s risk metrics database. 

While federal access to the financial data provided by ISS is important, the financial services company’s decision to promote far-left policies within American corporates and its partial ownership by the German-based financial services conglomerate Deutsche Börse Group raises serious concerns. In addition, ISS controls roughly 48 percent of the proxy advisory industry, with their only other actual competitor being Glass Lewis, which holds roughly a 42 percent market share. This unusual market situation suggests the federal government, rather than doing business with the foreign-owned ISS, should instead be looking to regulate the company, as the market currently lacks any significant competition.

ANTITRUST AND FOREIGN INFLUENCE.

Notably, the U.S. House of Representatives subpoenaed ISS executives in 2023 over allegations the firm colluded with Glass Lewis to essentially “fix” the proxy advisory market, ensuring no other competitors could gain any significant market share against the two firms. This behavior is a classic antitrust situation that would normally necessitate federal action. However, ISS’s business with the SEC raises concerns of undue influence.

ISS maintains an entire ESG practice, pushing these policies in proxy shareholder votes when corporations select new board chairmen or CEOs. Additionally, the fact that ISS is foreign-owned raises concerns that the company could be exerting undue foreign influence over American domestic financial policies—especially with its net-zero carbon agenda.

Congress has asked the U.S. Treasury Department-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to investigate the Deutsche Börse Group’s acquisition of ISS and whether it poses a threat to American national and economic security. Notably, the Deutsche Börse Group is alleged to have questionable business ties to China and critics contend the German conglomerate pushes policies seen as favorable to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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There is an ongoing push for President Donald J. Trump to cut ties between federal financial regulators and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The foreign-owned financial services company acts as a proxy advisory firm, providing proxy voting services and data to corporate shareholders—and pushes radical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. show more
November 20, 2024
William Upton
TRUMP TRANSITION 2024/5

Tops Dems Admit Gaetz Allegations Unsubstantiated, Praise His Legislative Record.

Leading Congressional and national Democrats are admitting the allegations against former Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) being investigated by the House Ethics Committee are unsubstantiated. Additionally, many of Gaetz’s colleagues across the aisle, even if begrudgingly, are also offering praise of his legislative record.

During his over seven years in Congress, Gaetz—despite the corporate media spin—cultivated a reputation as a serious legislator willing to reach across the partisan aisle on issues, including drug policy, the ethics of congressional stock trading, antitrust action, and experimental treatments for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This record has led to some surprising endorsements and praise of his nomination by President-elect Donald J. Trump as the next U.S. Attorney General.

“I think that his appointment to that position would not only ensure that the current scheduling, petition and review process continues to move forward at pace, but hopefully even faster, because generally, these things have taken years to roll through the motions,” said Morgan Fox, the political director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, in a recent interview. Fox added: “I think that his appointment to that position would not only ensure that the current scheduling, petition and review process continues to move forward at pace, but hopefully even faster, because generally, these things have taken years to roll through the motions.”

Even hardline progressive lawmakers like Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) are praising Gaetz, encouraging the Attorney General nominee to discuss “his work on war powers and whether he would be a voice against going to war in Iran.”

Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, has praised Gaetz’s nomination, noting that she hopes to work with him. Both Gaetz and Khan are staunch advocates of using antitrust actions to break up Big Tech corporations and prevent market concentration at the expense of American consumers.

Other members of the Progressive Caucus, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) acknowledge Gaetz’s bipartisan work in Congress and admit that they have worked with him on several issues.

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Leading Congressional and national Democrats are admitting the allegations against former Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) being investigated by the House Ethics Committee are unsubstantiated. Additionally, many of Gaetz's colleagues across the aisle, even if begrudgingly, are also offering praise of his legislative record. show more
November 14, 2024
William Upton
TRUMP TRANSITION 2024/5

A Biden Govt Official Is Backing Matt Gaetz’s Nomination for U.S. Attorney General?!

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairwoman Lina Khan—appointed to office in 2021 by President Joe Biden—is backing President Donald J. Trump’s choice to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as the next U.S. Attorney General. The endorsement, which stunned political progressives and members of the Democratic Party, came during the FTC’s Open Meeting on Thursday.

“I’m grateful and appreciative of the bipartisan support from the network, including Vice President-elect Vance and former Congressman Gaetz, who I understand was just announced as the future Attorney General. That will be terrific for the bipartisanship work to continue,” Khan said.

While it is unusual for prominent figures in a presidential administration to openly back political appointees put forward by the opposing party, it is even more rare to see such an occurrence for roles like Attorney General and for someone seen as a partisan firebrand like Rep. Gaetz. However, Khan’s open support of the former Florida Congressman’s nomination is a rare example of populist bipartisanship in Washington, D.C.

Khan’s aggressive approach to antitrust action and her ongoing battle for consumer privacy against data brokers has earned her praise from a handful of House and Senate Republicans. Gaetz has gone so far as to say that he hopes Khan will continue to chair the FTC under President-elect Trump, noting: “Her work against data brokers has been very important. Her work against some of the consolidated market power that hurts consumers has really inspired me.”

Prior to his nomination as Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) heaped praise on Khan’s antitrust work, stating: “I probably am one of the few Republicans who thinks Lina Khan is doing a good job. I think she has some justifiable concerns about corporate concentration.”

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairwoman Lina Khan—appointed to office in 2021 by President Joe Biden—is backing President Donald J. Trump's choice to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as the next U.S. Attorney General. The endorsement, which stunned political progressives and members of the Democratic Party, came during the FTC's Open Meeting on Thursday. show more
November 14, 2024
Economy
TECH

EU Fines Meta Nearly One Billion for Abusive Facebook Marketplace Practices.

The European Commission is imposing a heavy financial penalty on Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, citing anti-competitive practices associated with its Marketplace service. Meta faces a fine of approximately 797.72 million euros (~$841 million) following an inquiry by the European Union’s executive branch, which serves as the primary antitrust authority within the 27-member bloc.

The investigation concluded that Meta had abused its market dominance by integrating its Marketplace feature with the social networking platform Facebook. According to the Commission, this practice compelled Facebook users to encounter Marketplace services involuntarily, effectively stifling competition by limiting exposure to rival services. Furthermore, the Commission raised concerns over Meta’s terms of service, which allegedly permitted the company to leverage advertising data—sourced from competitors using Facebook or Instagram—to advantage its own Marketplace platform.

Meta says it will contest the Commission’s findings. The company asserts that the decision lacks evidence of any detrimental effect on competitors or consumers and disregards the competitive dynamics present in Europe’s online classified advertisements sector.

The European action against Meta mirrors a similar ruling in the United States against technology and online search giant Google. In August, a federal judge ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law, raising the possibility that the $2 trillion company could face a breakup.

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The European Commission is imposing a heavy financial penalty on Meta, Facebook's parent company, citing anti-competitive practices associated with its Marketplace service. Meta faces a fine of approximately 797.72 million euros (~$841 million) following an inquiry by the European Union's executive branch, which serves as the primary antitrust authority within the 27-member bloc. show more