italys antitrust authority said on wednesday it would investigate meta platform over the possible abuse of its position in talks over the rights to music posted on metas platforms and potentially hurting competition in the sector the dispute involved the italian society of authors and publishers siae according to the antitrust regulator mark zuckerbergs company may have unduly interrupted the negotiations for the stipulation of the licence for the use on its platforms of siaes music rights it said in a statement meta interrupted talks for the renewal of expired contracts by eliminating siaeprotected music content from its social platforms but didnt provide the required information to siae to negotiate under the principle of fairness and transparency the regulator said its conduct could hurt competition in the relevant markets and cause serious damage to consumers it added last month meta which owns facebook whatsapp and instagram failed to reach a deal with siae to renew the copyright license as a result all songs under siaes books have been blocked on its platforms since march 16 we will fully cooperate with the inquiry from the italian competition authority protecting the copyrights of songwriters and artists is an important priority for us a spokesperson for meta said on wednesday the investigation involves meta platforms inc meta platforms ireland limited meta platforms technologies uk limited and facebook italy srlfacebooktwitterlinkedintechnology giants are facing probes all over the worldend of article10910131298799128