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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by e_y_ on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:45PM (#25783082)
Apple disabled both Facebook and Google's iOS enterprise certificates because they were using them to collect data from external participants in violation of the ToS, although that wasn't the main app. And the access was restored once they took down the offending apps.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206020/apple-facebook-i...

If the violations were serious enough, I think Apple/Google would consider some kind of temporary shutdown for the Facebook app if they thought they could weather the PR storm.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by chalst on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:06AM (#25788606)
Apple has less to fear from antitrust than Google in general, and particularly from taking hostile actions towards Facebook.

On the other hand, Facebook is not really a competitor to Apple, while Google very much is, so Apple has an incentive not to carry out an action that would strengthen Google.

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