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Meta, TikTok challenge EU’s crackdown on Big Tech dominance

Fresh challenges to European Commission’s Digital Markets Act pave the way for a further legal fights between regulators and social media powerhouses

Meta argued that the European Commission was wrong to put Facebook’s Marketplace and Messenger services within the scope of the bloc’s new digital antitrust rules. Picture: Getty

Meta and TikTok-owner Bytedance have formally challenged the European Union’s latest clampdown on the dominance of Big Tech firms, paving the way for a fresh legal fight between regulators and the social media powerhouses.

Meta argued that the European Commission was wrong to put Facebook’s Marketplace and Messenger services within the scope of the bloc’s new digital antitrust rules, according to an appeal filed to the EU courts on Wednesday.

The legal challenge sets up ...