Miffed: The European Commission said Facebook's statements during the regulator's scrutiny of the US$22bil (RM97.4bil) deal in 2014 were incorrect.
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said she was reviewing Facebook's response to charges the US social network provided misleading information during its bid for messaging service WhatsApp which may result in a hefty fine for the company.
The European Commission in December last year said Facebook's statements during the regulator's scrutiny of the US$22bil (RM97.4bil) deal in 2014 were incorrect when it said that it was unable reliably to match the two companies' user accounts.
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