Meta Gets EU Antitrust Order to Open WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots

European Union regulators have given Meta five working days to implement the interim measures while the competition probe continues.

Meta has until next week to restore the terms that applied before it began restricting access last October, when rival assistants could use the messaging service’s business tools at no cost.

The WhatsApp investigation falls under traditional antitrust laws rather than the Digital Markets Act, the EU’s landmark legislation designed to tackle the dominance of the big online platforms.

Those complaints prompted the Commission, the EU's competition ​enforcer, to open an investigation in December last year.