European Commission forces Meta to accept third-party chatbots in WhatsApp for free
Back in November of last year, Meta banned third-party chatbots in WhatsApp, but of course the company has its own one built right in. The EU authorities have taken issue with this, and the European Commission (EC) specifically has now ordered Meta to restore access to “rival general-purpose AI assistants” in WhatsApp for free, and maintain it until the end of the EC’s antitrust investigation into the original move by Meta to ban them.
The Commission’s press release says this will “prevent serious and irreparable harm to competition in this growing market by Meta’s conduct, which at first…
