Zuckerberg threatens to close Facebook, and two European ministers reply, "Life will become better!"

The CEO and owner of the Facebook and Instagram applications, Mark Zuckerberg, to close its operations in Europe did not go unnoticed, but the response came direct and perhaps sarcastic from European leaders.

The new German Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, told reporters during a meeting in Paris on Monday night that he had lived without Facebook and Twitter for four years after being hacked, and "life was wonderful," as he put it.

For his part, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed that life would be very good without Facebook, according to the "CITYA.M" website.

According to "Al Arabiya Net", the two ministers commented on Meta's statement that if it is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from European users on servers based in the United States, Facebook and Instagram may be closed throughout Europe.

Zuckerberg warned in his annual report that the main problem for his company is transatlantic data transfers, which are regulated via the so-called Privacy Shield and other agreements that Meta uses to store data from European users on US servers.

Also, Meta warned in a recent report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, that if a data transfer framework is not adopted and the company is no longer allowed to use existing agreements "or alternatives", the company "likely" will not be able to provide many " most important products and services", including Facebook and Instagram, in the European Union, according to various media reports.

Meta stressed that data sharing between countries and regions is critical to providing their services and targeted advertising, as existing agreements to enable data transfers are currently under intense scrutiny in the European Union.

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