Meta faces antitrust allegations, El Paso declares a migrant state of emergency, and Twitterers tell Musk to step down. Here is everything you Need2Know for Monday, December 19, 2022.

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Need2Know December 19, 2022

just this morning. The european union charged meta with antitrust violations for tying. It's classified online ad service with its social network. The european commission's charges say that by automatically offering facebook users access to marketplace, it allegedly distorts competition. The commission also raised concerns that metas terms and conditions imposed unfair conditions on advertisers. Meta will now argue its case before the commission and if it's unsuccessful, it could be charged with as much as 10% of metas Global and all right. Meanwhile, former ft ex ceo sam Beckman freed is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas. He's gonna say he no longer is fighting extradition to the United States. That's according to Reuters. His decision would then pave the way for him to appear in U. S. Court to face wire fraud, money laundering and campaign finance charges. Beckman freed, was indicted in federal court in Manhattan last Tuesday and has remained in the Bahamas Fox Hill prison after a judge that rejected his request to remain at home while awaiting a he hearing on his extradition. That conditions in Fox Hill have been described as harsh with overcrowding and even rodent infestation there as well. Chloe, the mayor of el paso texas declared a state of emergency this weekend over concerns the city may not be able to manage a surge of migrants across the US Mexico border. The trump era title 42 policy that allowed the U. S. To expel migrants at the border is expected to end on Wednesday. City officials say they could see an influx of as many as 6000 migrants per day. The state of emergency will let the city tap into additional resources and will allow it to operate expanded shelters for migrants in response to dropping temperatures which are expected to dip into the twenties overnight. Well, it was a thrilling World Cup finale as Lionel messi's wait for glory finally ended when Argentina beat France in a dramatic penalty shootout. The game finished in extra time with a 33 draw, but Argenti we got the best of the penalty kicks, making four as France, only managed to get to the messi playing in his fifth and final World Cup scored twice. But Frances M bob a had a stunning hat trick, the first in the final since 1966. Argentinians taken to the streets to celebrate their country's third title, their first since 1986. And obviously it was a tremendous in dramatic fashion. No, but I mean obviously nobody wants it to end in penalty kicks, but obviously that's a very exciting finale. We should note the 2026 World Cup coming to North America. It's the first time ever. It'll be in Mexico, United States and Canada, which will be really exciting. I mean that's gonna be huge, especially since, you know, the U. S. We're not the biggest soccer fans here, but maybe this will sway a lot of opinions. Who knows now, let's talk about Elon musk because he's asked users to vote as to whether or not he should step down as the head of twitter must tweeted last night asking twitter users to vote and said quote, I will abide by the results of this poll, musk has led twitter for a little over seven weeks after buying the social media platform for $44 billion in october and that poll just closed this morning with 55 7% voting yes speaker. Um and if you can see that it looks like over 17 million users voted here. But I should mention also as we were discussing earlier today, a lot of these polls are thought to be mostly bots. So the fact that Iran must take so seriously the results of these polls, despite the fact that in many cases a lot of it is probably spam is really interesting to note on this. Tesla shares up over 5% premarket on this news. Just the assumption maybe that Elon musk would no longer stay at twitter. He has done twitter polls in the past on reinstating former president trump's account and reinstating those journalists who were just banned last week. Both he and abided by those poll results. So we'll see if he does on this one as well