Facebook Prosecuted for Abusing Its Dominance
- Publisher:
- Competition Commission of South Africa
- Publication Date:
- 16 March 2022
- Tags:
- South Africa, Company News, Economy, Business and Finance, ICT and Telecom, Legal and Judicial Affairs
The Competition Commission (the Commission) has referred to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution the social media giant, Meta Platforms Inc (previously known as Facebook Inc), and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp Inc and Facebook South Africa (collectively referred to as Facebook) for abuse of dominance.
The Commission alleges that Facebook, in the first instance, has decided in or about July 2020 and expressed an ongoing intention to offboard Gov Chat and #LetsTalk, a technology start-up that connects government and citizens, from the WhatsApp Business Application Programming Interface (WhatsApp Business API). In the second instance, Facebook has imposed and/or selectively enforced exclusionary terms and conditions regulating access to the WhatsApp Business API, mainly restrictions on the use of data.
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