Facebook and Meta company logos on smartphone and monitor screensMOSCOW, Mar 15 Commission on Issues South Africa has filed a lawsuit against Meta over «abuse of dominance» in the country by Facebook and the WhatsApp messenger, and is also awaiting a fine against the company.» The Competition Commission filed a lawsuit with the Competition Court for prosecution … Meta Platforms Inc and its controlled WhatsApp Inc and Facebook South Africa for abuse of dominance,» the commission said in a statement. total turnover of funds. According to the commission, the decision to take the case to court is related, among other things, to the situation in 2020, when Meta (then Facebook) intended to deprive the state-owned GovCha platform t the ability to use the WhatsApp Business API. Representatives of the platform in November 2020 appealed to the commission with a complaint on this issue.
