Meta Formally Challenges EU's DMA Rules for Big Tech

Meta has officially challenged the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), adding another legal battle between the big tech company and the regulators.

Meta Argues Antitrust Rules on Facebook Marketplace, Messenger

According to the reports, Meta is questioning the decision to include Facebook Marketplace and Messenger services within the scope of the new digital antitrust rules. A company spokesperson also emphasized that the appeal only seeks clarification on "specific points of law regarding the designations."

The DMA rules will force Meta to get users' permission first before the data gets shared between Marketplace and across other company-owned services. As for Messenger, the company will have to be open to working with other online messaging platforms as part of breaking market abuse.

While the regulations will put certain limitations on the way Meta provides its services, the company assured that the appeal will "not alter or detract" its commitment to complying with the DMA by March, next year. Recently, Meta and the European Commission made a breakthrough as the company pledged to give Marketplace users an option that will prevent their data from being used to improve its services.

Big Tech Companies Seeks Appeal Against DMA

This is not the first time a big tech company is seeking an appeal with the DMA. Earlier this month, Apple was reportedly drafting an appeal to dispute regulation. The company plans to dispute the commission's decision to tag iMessage as a "gatekeeper" app. The letter will also challenge the decision to include the App Store of the company on the list.

The list of dominant tech companies and gatekeeper apps are all publicly published by the EU, following the DMA. It involved Alphabet, Amazon, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, which hold 22 core platforms service.

According to the DMA, these companies will have to abide by the rules such as removing favors on their services over their rivals. They will also be banned from collecting personal data and sharing it across their services and using the data collected from third-party services.

Companies who are planning to challenge the DMA still have a chance to file their appeal until November 16.