Turkey's competition authority has enacted a provisional restriction on Meta, limiting data exchange between Instagram and Threads during an ongoing market abuse investigation. The interim measure now will be maintained until a definitive ruling is made.

The regulator had initiated the probe into Meta back in December due to potential competition law breaches and significant market damage from the data merging of Instagram and Threads. The regulator stated that the company's data sharing communication across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp lacked clarity and sufficient information. Additionally, the user prompts for data sharing approval were seen as inadequate for addressing competition issues.

Previously, on a separate matter, the Turkish authority had also imposed a daily fine of$148,000 on Meta for its data sharing notification practices.