The European Union (EC) launched an antitrust investigation against Facebook.

The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against the American company Facebook. announced on Friday, June 4, in a statement by the EC circulated in Brussels.

The European Commission (EC) has launched a formal antitrust investigation. Experts will assess whether Facebook has violated EU competition rules by using advertising data collected, in particular, from advertisers to compete with them in the markets – said in the message.

Recall that recently there was a message that Twitter could be fined another 24 million rubles for refusing to remove content banned by the Russian Federation. For the same violation, an additional fine of 20 million rubles may be on Google and Facebook.