European regulators have asked Google (GOOGL) for more information about its now-scrapped secret advertising partnership with Instagram-parent Meta (META) that ignored the search company’s rules on how minors should be treated online, The Financial Times’ Stephen Morris and Javier Espinoza report. According to people familiar with the matter, commission regulators in October ordered lawyers for Alphabet (GOOG) to review and collate data, presentations, internal chats and emails related to the ad campaigns, and officials are currently deciding whether to act.
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