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Madrid Court Orders Meta to Pay €479 Million to Spanish Media for Unfair Competition Over GDPR Violations

The judge based damages on publisher data due to Meta’s lack of Spanish accounts.

Près de 90 éditeurs de presse numérique espagnole et agences de presse membres de l’AMI ont obtenu gain de cause.
La justice espagnole a condamné Meta, maison-mère de Facebook et d'Instagram, à verser près de 480 millions à des médias locaux pour "concurrence déloyale", pour ne pas avoir respecté la réglementation sur la protection des données personnelles, une somme assortie de 60 millions d'euros d'intérêts légaux

Overview

  • Commercial Court No. 15 in Madrid awarded €479 million to 87 Spanish digital publishers and news agencies for unfair competition linked to illicit personal-data use in ads on Facebook and Instagram.
  • The decision adds more than €60 million in legal interest and grants indemnification to the Europa Press agency, which is not part of AMI.
  • The court defined the infringement period from May 25, 2018, when the GDPR took effect, to August 1, 2023, when Meta resumed seeking user consent.
  • Relying on industry figures after Meta Ireland withheld local accounts, the court estimated Meta earned about €5.281 billion in Spain from online advertising during the period.
  • The ruling directs that part of those earnings be redistributed to competitors in the Spanish ad market and notes a similar complaint pending in France.