Meta Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly begging with the Trump administration to intervene on behalf of the social media giant after faced a mass finally under the strict rules of the European Union antitrust.
The European Commission, EU competition supervisor, is reading to hit Meta about what is expected to be hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially more than $ 1 billion, as the post reported.
Meta will also receive a vacation notice and the desire that details which practices should change to take in accordance.
In an attempt to deduct the sentences – or to avoid them all – Meta leaders have pushed US tradition under Trump to resist European Union efforts, reported Wall Street Journal, quoting sources with the issue.
“This is not just about Finnes – it is about the commission that seeks to handle successful American businesses simply because the American, while allowing Chinese and European rivals to leave the blow,” said a Meta spokesman in a state to comment on the report.
The White House and the European Commission’s representatives did not immediately repay the request of the post for comment.
The fine against Meta was expected to be announced by the end of this week.
Zuckerberg had personally made the issue of US response to European regulations at meeting with US officials in February.
The Facebook founder has been leaving Trump, even visiting him in Mar-a-Lake and appointing an important Trump ally, UFC President Dana White, on the Board of Meta Directors.
Although traditionally fierce in Big Tech, Trump has been a loud critic of the EU custom to impose massive fines for US companies. The president has referred the sentences as “extortion abroad” and threatened revenge measures as part of his ongoing trade dispute with the EU.
Digital Market Act (DMA) entered into force in 2023 and implements difficult meta competition rules and six other companies considered to be Internet goalkeepers – Apple, Google Alphabet, Amazon, Booking.com, Tiktok Parent BYTEDANCE and Microsoft.
Apple is also expected to be completed along Google as part of the first wave of DMA sentences against large US technology giants.
Numerous exits have reported that EU officials were set to implement “modest finines” intended to promote compliance with the law without attracting Trump’s full anger.
According to the newspaper, some EU officials have made free for Finas announcement before Trump reveals his plans for mutual tariffs against Europe. The Trump administration has billed its announcement on Wednesday as “ERITION Liberation Day”.
The European Commission has aimed at Meta for allegedly obliging customers in a “Payment or Consent” restrictive model for advertising on Instagram and Facebook.
Officials say clients should have the ability to access free metas without granting permission for personalized ads.
Initial charges against Meta were revealed last year.
In a public compliance report published last month, Meta said “has continued to receive additional requirements that go beyond what is written in law” despite attempts to adhere to DMA rules.
Joel Kaplan, a well-connected Republican who serves as a senior Meta policy official, said last month that the company “will not be turned on” from the Trump’s help in response to EU strike.
“When companies are treated differently and in a way that is discrimination against them, then this should be emphasized for the government’s home government,” Kaplan said, according to Bloomberg.
Separately, Zuckerberg himself made the opportunity that Trump should go to the American technology companies facing EU Finnes during a January appearance in Podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience”.
Last year, Apple became the first company to be accused of violating DMA for allegedly preventing the rival app developed by light management clients in services outside its application store.
The EU reception would finally punish Apple for that issue.
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