Overview
- The European Commission is preparing an EU-level antitrust investigation into Meta’s AI features on WhatsApp, according to the Financial Times citing two EU officials.
- An announcement is expected in the coming days, though the timing could still change, the report said.
- The probe would focus on how Meta integrated its Meta AI assistant into the WhatsApp interface across Europe following the March 2025 rollout.
- Authorities plan to proceed under classic antitrust law instead of the DMA, which recent oversight has applied to areas such as cloud services.
- Meta told Reuters it has not received details of the EU case, referenced a prior WhatsApp statement calling Italy’s inquiry unfounded, and said recent updates do not affect tens of thousands of businesses using customer-support tools or their chosen AI assistants.