{"id":984879,"date":"2026-01-13T07:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984879"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:29:32","slug":"meta-to-exclude-italy-from-rival-chatbot-ban-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/meta-to-exclude-italy-from-rival-chatbot-ban-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to exclude Italy from rival chatbot ban on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms will exclude Italy from its \u200dban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp following an order from the country&#8217;s antitrust authority, \u2060according to a notice sent to AI providers and developers seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian watchdog AGCM last month ordered Meta to suspend its proposed ban while the watchdog investigates \u200cthe company \u200cfor suspected abuse of its market power following complaints from rivals. The European Commission too is probing \u200cMeta over whether it abused its dominance by blocking rival AI chatbots from its messaging service WhatsApp, but did not issue any interim order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms will exclude Italy from its \u200dban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp following an order from the country&#8217;s antitrust authority, \u2060according to a notice sent to AI providers and developers seen by Reuters. The Italian watchdog AGCM last month ordered Meta to suspend its proposed ban while the watchdog investigates \u200cthe company \u200cfor suspected abuse of its market power following complaints from rivals. The European Commission too is probing \u200cMeta over whether it abused its dominance by blocking rival AI chatbots from its messaging service WhatsApp, but did not issue any interim order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}