The head of the Germany’s antitrust watchdog, Andreas Mundt, said he is “very optimistic” that his office will take action against Facebook later this year, reported Reuters.
The social media giant has faced extreme scrutiny from European and German lawmakers in the past year due to a host of issues, including the Cambridge Analytic scandal and allegations of unfair competition with rivals.
“We are currently evaluating Facebook’s opinion on our preliminary assessment, and I’m very optimistic that we are going to take further steps, even this year, whatever this would mean,” Mundt told attendees at a conference on competition law in Berlin on Monday, October 1.
The worst-case scenario for Facebook in this event is Germany ruling it a monopoly and ordering it to break up–though such action would face years of legal challenges.
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