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Lessons to be learned from Facebook’s WhatsApp deal, French watchdog says


January 17, 2020

Facebook’s $22 billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked, the boss of France’s antitrust watchdog, which is set to help review EU rules, has told Reuters. “Clearly, deals such as the Facebook/WhatsApp merger should probably not have been allowed,” Isabelle de Silva said in an interview. “One of the things we see more clearly now than we …

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