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Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram (techcrunch.com)

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Meta said on Monday that it plans to “temporarily” shutter Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction imposed by the Turkish competition authority last month over the way Meta shares data between Threads and Instagram.

The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), known as Rekabet Kurumu, noted on March 18 that its investigations found that Meta was abusing its dominant market position by combining the data of users who create Threads profiles with that of their Instagram account — without giving users the choice to opt-in.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren’t dependent on each other for basic functionality.

They don't. All Meta/Facebook services can be decoupled since the EU enforces the DMA gatekeeper status. Meta just needs to add Turkey to the same decoupling whitelist as the EU countries, and the issue is immediately solved.