EU Court Partially Sides with Meta in Blow to European Commission
The court said Meta’s messaging app remains a gateway under the Digital Markets Act, while its Marketplace designation was dropped for weak reasoning.
- On June 3, the General Court annulled the European Commission's designation of Facebook Marketplace as a "core platform service" under the Digital Markets Act, while upholding the same label for Messenger.
- The Digital Markets Act empowers the European Commission to designate large platforms as "gatekeepers" and impose strict obligations without litigating each case separately. Meta challenged these designations in November 2023, arguing Marketplace and Messenger were extensions of Facebook.
- Judges held the decision "does not satisfy the requirements in terms of reasoning as regards Marketplace," failing to account for mid-2023 service changes. The court agreed Messenger was "offered by means of standalone applications," distinguishing it from Facebook.
- While Meta achieved a procedural victory, the annulment does not exempt Marketplace from the Digital Markets Act's reach. The European Commission retains its enforcement powers but must now document its reasoning more carefully.
- This dispute is part of a broader conflict between Brussels and American platforms including Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple, as the Digital Markets Act faces fierce criticism from President Donald Trump's administration.
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EU court partially sides with Meta in blow to European Commission
The EU's General Court has annulled Facebook Marketplace's gatekeeper designation under the Digital Markets Act — but the ruling is largely procedural, as the Commission had already stripped the platform of that status a year earlier.
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Meta secured a partial victory Wednesday over the EU's powers to regulate tech giants, as a top court ruled the bloc was wrong to slap tough rules on its Facebook Marketplace platform—but threw out an appeal over Messenger.
Meta won a court appeal this Wednesday that forced the EU to raise tough rules on its Facebook Marketplace platform, but lost a similar attempt in relation to Messenger, in a legal test of the bloc’s powers to regulate technological giants. The appeal to the EU General Court in Luxembourg referred to the designation of platforms under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), one of several EU digital laws facing harsh criticism from the administration of …
EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper labels and walked out having shed one. On 3 June the Luxembourg court annulled the European Commission’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
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