Meta Announce Plans to Temporarily Suspend Threads in Turkey

Cryptopolitan · 2024-04-15T21:43:04.000Z

Meta has announced that it will suspend Threads in Turkey from April 29. This decision was in response to an interim injunction filed by the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA). The agency filed the injunction last month over the way platforms under Meta Threads and Instagram share data. Meta set to temporarily suspend Threads in Turkey The TCA, also known as Rekabet Karumu, noted that after its investigations, it discovered that the company combines the data of users who sign up on Threads with their Instagram account. The agency noted that the company is abusing its dominant market position by not allowing its users to choose if they want to opt in or not. This present dilemma is one in a long list of the regulatory hurdles that Meta has faced across the European market. In 2021, the company was asked to pay a fine of $267 million over WhatsApp GDPR violations in the European Union (EU). It was also forced to Giphy, a service that it had acquired for $400 million, to Shutterstock for $53 million due to competition offenses. The company’s European regulatory struggles This new struggle did not come without an earlier scuffle. Meta was slapped with an $18.6 million fine for combining the data of its users across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. The TCA announced earlier this year that Meta would have to pay a fine of $160,000 per day if it refused to conform with the earlier order. The agency clarified that the notification that the company said it sent to users over its data-sharing model was insufficient. Meta launched Threads last year after several users on X were threatening to boycott the platform after the controversial takeover by its present owner Elon Musk. Although the platform announced hitting 130 million users, Meta has faced criticism for forcing users to sign up for an Instagram account before they access the Threads app. Initially, users who intend to delete their Threads account would need to forfeit their Instagram account, but the company introduced a feature to address that concern.Meta was hesitant to launch Threads in the EU market due to the regulations in the region but soon rolled out a ‘view without profile’ feature for EU users last year when it launched.

Meta 宣布将从 4 月 29 日起在土耳其暂停 Threads 服务。这一决定是对土耳其竞争管理局 (TCA) 提出的临时禁令的回应。该机构上个月就 Meta Threads 和 Instagram 旗下平台共享数据的方式提出了禁令。
Meta 将暂时停止在土耳其举办 Threads 活动
TCA（又名 Rekabet Karumu）指出，经过调查，发现该公司将在 Threads 上注册的用户的数据与他们的 Instagram 帐户相结合。该机构指出，该公司不允许用户选择是否加入，这是在滥用其市场主导地位。
目前的困境只是 Meta 在欧洲市场面临的众多监管障碍之一。2021 年，该公司因 WhatsApp 在欧盟违反 GDPR 而被要求支付 2.67 亿美元的罚款。由于竞争违规，它还被迫将其以 4 亿美元收购的服务 Giphy 以 5300 万美元的价格卖给 Shutterstock。
该公司在欧洲的监管困境
这场新的斗争并非没有发生过早期的冲突。Meta 因整合其 WhatsApp、Instagram 和 Facebook 用户的数据而被处以 1860 万美元的罚款。TCA 今年早些时候宣布，如果 Meta 拒绝遵守先前的命令，它将不得不每天支付 16 万美元的罚款。
该机构澄清说，该公司称其就其数据共享模式向用户发出的通知是不够的。Meta 去年推出了 Threads，此前在其现任所有者埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 进行有争议的收购后，X 上的几名用户威胁要抵制该平台。尽管该平台宣布用户数达到 1.3 亿，但 Meta 因强迫用户在访问 Threads 应用程序之前注册 Instagram 帐户而受到批评。
最初，想要删除 Threads 帐户的用户需要放弃他们的 Instagram 帐户，但该公司推出了一项功能来解决这一问题。由于该地区的规定，Meta 犹豫是否在欧盟市场推出 Threads，但去年推出时很快为欧盟用户推出了“无个人资料查看”功能。

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