Jan 23, 2024 11:32:00

Meta allows users to unlink Facebook and Instagram accounts to comply with Digital Markets Law

From March 2024, Meta will provide users in EU countries,

EEA countries, and Switzerland with the ability to unlink Facebook and Instagram accounts in order to comply with the requirements for gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). revealed.

Offering People More Choice on How They Can Use Our Services in the EU | Meta
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/offering-people-more-choice-on-how-they-can-use-our-services-in-the-eu/

Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts - Neowin
https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/

Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accounts | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/meta-relents-to-eu-allows-unlinking-of-facebook-and-instagram-accounts/

The DMA is a law created with the aim of promoting competition and fairness in the digital market, and will come into force in November 2022 and take effect in May 2023.

Then, in September 2023, six companies, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, were appointed as 'gatekeepers' providing 'core platform services' under the DMA. Gatekeepers are required to comply with the DMA within six months of this appointment.

Ahead of March 2024, the gatekeeper deadline to comply with the DMA, Meta has announced that it will allow users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland to unlink their Facebook and Instagram accounts. Did. It is expected that this will be possible in the coming weeks.

According to Meta, if you already use both Facebook and Instagram, you can either 'make your account information available on both Facebook and Instagram through Account Center' or 'manage your information separately on Facebook and Instagram' You will be able to choose whether or not to link two accounts.

Along with this, you will also be able to select ``Do not use your Facebook account information'' for Facebook Messenger, Facebook Marketplace, and Facebook Games.

Please note that if you cancel the link, Meta will stop merging your account information within 15 days of the cancellation, but the help page states that the information that was integrated before the link will remain intact.

How information from accounts in the same account center is used
https://www.meta.com/ja-jp/help/accounts-center/Information-used-across-accounts/