Overview
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the Congress of Deputies will launch an exhaustive inquiry and call Meta executives and external experts before the Commission of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
- The reported investigation by teams in Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands alleges Meta tracked web activity and tied visited pages to Facebook and Instagram accounts even in incognito mode or behind VPNs.
- Reports say the hidden mechanism operated for nearly a year, affected millions of users, and involved Android devices in particular.
- The government announced a legislative and regulatory package for the first half of 2026 to curb disinformation, protect minors, tackle hate speech, and prevent systematic privacy abuses.
- Sánchez warned that the law outweighs any algorithm and promised consequences for rights violations, while hearings and detailed measures have yet to be set out.