{"id":15204,"date":"2024-07-01T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-accused-of-breaking-eu-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-3\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:06:36","slug":"meta-accused-of-breaking-eu-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-accused-of-breaking-eu-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission objects to \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model for users of Facebook and Instagram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2024\/jul\/01\/euro-dollar-sterling-bond-markets-france-election-marine-le-pen-french-hung-parliament-manufacturing-ecb-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has accused Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta of breaching the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/30\/meta-facebook-instagram-europe-pay-ad-free\">ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last year in an effort to comply with the bloc\u2019s data privacy rules, under which users pay a monthly fee for an ad-free version of Facebook or Instagram that does not use their personal data for advertising purposes. If users do not pay, their data is used to tailor personalised adverts that appear in their social media feeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/01\/meta-facebook-instagram-eu-digital-markets-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission objects to \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model for users of Facebook and Instagram Business live \u2013 latest updates The European Commission has accused Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta of breaching the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram. Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}