Meta tests eBay listings in Facebook Marketplace

Meta is testing eBay listings connected Facebook Marketplace successful the US, Germany, and France. The institution said successful a station connected Wednesday that it’s making the alteration to comply pinch past year’s antitrust bid by the European Union, though it continues to entreaty the decision.

With the test, Facebook Marketplace users tin browse eBay listings connected Facebook Marketplace and past cheque retired connected eBay. Meta said it could “benefit” some platforms, arsenic it exposes eBay sellers to Facebook’s audience, while giving Marketplace users entree to “a broader array of listings from the eBay community.” The news was reported earlier by Bloomberg.

Last year, the EU fined Meta $840 million complete claims it forcibly exposed Facebook users to Marketplace by linking its trading and societal platforms. It besides accused Meta of imposing “unfair trading conditions” connected rival classified ads services to use Marketplace, and ordered Meta to extremity engaging successful this allegedly forbidden behavior. At the time, Meta said it would activity connected a solution while appealing the fine, saying that the EU’s determination relies “on a hypothetical imaginable to harm competition.”

Meta doesn’t opportunity whether the Marketplace trial will effect each users crossed the US, Germany, and France, but we’ve reached retired to the institution pinch a petition for much information.