WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. Court of Appeals

panel on Friday rejected a request by Meta to block

the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from reopening a probe into

its Facebook unit pending appeal.

The court had ruled against Meta on March 12, despite Meta's

objections that it already paid a $5 billion fine and agreed to

a range of safeguards. The court on Friday rejected Meta's

emergency bid for an injunction pending appeal. The FTC wants to

tighten an existing 2020 Facebook privacy settlement to ban

profiting from minors' data and expand curbs on facial

recognition technology. The agency has accused Meta of

misleading parents about protections for children.