Fb has been fined 110m euros (£95m) by the EU for offering "incorrect or deceptive" info throughout its buy of messaging service WhatsApp in 2014.
The European Fee mentioned Fb had mentioned it couldn't mechanically match consumer accounts by itself platform and WhatsApp.
However two years later it launched a service that did simply that.
Fb mentioned the errors it had made weren't intentional.
'Clear sign'
In an announcement, the Fee mentioned: "The Fee has discovered that, opposite to Fb's statements within the 2014 merger evaluate course of, the technical chance of mechanically matching Fb and WhatsApp customers' identities already existed in 2014, and that Fb workers have been conscious of such a chance."
Nevertheless, it added that the fantastic wouldn't reverse its resolution to clear the $19bn buy of WhatsApp and was unrelated to separate investigations into knowledge safety points.
EU Competitors Commissioner Margrethe Vestager mentioned: "At this time's resolution sends a transparent sign to corporations that they have to adjust to all facets of EU merger guidelines, together with the duty to supply right info.
"And it imposes a proportionate and deterrent fantastic on Fb. The Fee should have the ability to take selections about mergers' results on competitors in full information of correct information."

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