Brussels GA&P (May 2017)

During the assessment of the proposed transaction, Facebook said to the Commission that it would not be possible to merge the list of users of both WhatsApp and Facebook. However, in August 2014, a WhastApp update was announced and included the possibility of linking WhatsApp users’ numbers to Facebook users’ identities. The Commission has found that this possibility already existed in 2014 and that, consequently, Facebook provided incorrect information during the merger assessment…