San Francisco — Facebook is fighting demands by EU investigators to turn over vast amounts of data the social network says includes highly sensitive personal information that’s not needed for antitrust probes.

The company challenged the European Commission’s requests for internal documents at the EU’s General Court earlier in July, a move that could thwart EU efforts to build cases against the company’s marketplace ads and how it uses data...

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