MLex: Meta Platforms is challenging the regulations underpinning Ofcom’s fee regime for services regulated under the UK Online Safety Act 2023, arguing that the methodology used to calculate fees and potential penalties is disproportionate because it is based on companies’ global revenues rather than UK-specific revenue. Fortnite developer Epic Games intends to join the challenge, MLex has learned. Ofcom said it will ‘robustly defend’ its reasoning in Court.

MLex: Meta faces a complaint from Dutch advocacy group What to Fix over Facebook’s alleged failure to enforce monetisation rules and provide effective systems for reporting potentially illegal monetisation. The group has asked the Dutch regulator ACM to investigate potential breaches of the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA).

Law360: A Norwegian consumer protection group has hit Meta with a legal challenge over its plans to deploy its users' data—including images and posts, to train artificial intelligence models.

Law360, London: On 29 July 2026, Meta lost its appeal seeking to prevent millions of Facebook users from seeking so-called user damages for the use of their personal data as part of a landmark competition claim.

Law360, London: The EU's antitrust watchdog hit Meta Platforms Inc with a €797.8m fine on 14 November 2024 for giving its Facebook Marketplace an unfair advantage over rival online classified ads services by automatically showing postings to its social media users.

Law360: Meta Platforms Inc said 14 June 2024 that it was putting on hold plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings to the European market after the Irish privacy regulator raised concerns about the company's efforts to use public content posted on Facebook and Instagram to fuel these models.

Law360: Meta has been accused of 'massive illegal data processing' by eight European consumer groups, which alleged 29 February 2024 that the tech giant's 'consent or pay' choice for customers is a cover-up for obtaining sensitive personal information.

Law360: Meta has been hit with a complaint from European consumer protection authorities, which fear that the tech giant's 'pay or consent' business model for Facebook and Instagram misleads its users, the European Commission said on 22 July 2024.

MLex: Social media giant Meta Platforms is in talks with the UK's privacy and competition watchdogs over its plans to introduce a subscription model with no advertisements, MLex has learned. The company, which runs the Facebook, Instagram, and Threads platforms, is hoping to secure backing for its plans to roll out a new paid subscription model and avoid the kind of problems it has encountered in the EU after introducing a ‘consent or pay’ model there in 2023.

MLex: Meta Platforms Ireland has been allowed to intervene in two joined appeals before the EU’s top court, supporting the European Commission in a dispute over alleged unlawful data transfers to the US via the Facebook Login feature. If the court confirms the Commission’s liability, it could also establish that Meta acted unlawfully—a finding that may set a precedent for compensation claims linked to data transfers made between the Schrems II ruling and the adoption of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

MLex: Meta is liable for fake advertisements and profiles on Facebook and Instagram and cannot invoke the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA) hosting liability exemption because its algorithms gave it control over the distribution of the disputed content, the Frankfurt Regional Court has ruled, according to its press officer. The case concerned third-party advertisements and profiles using the name and image of Thomas Kehl, founder of German financial-education brand Finanzfluss, to steer users towards fraudulent investment recommendations.

Law360, London: The Court of Justice held on 12 May 2026 that national laws allowing news publishers to demand fair payment in negotiations with social media companies to use their work do not breach EU's copyright law.