Facebook’s parent company, Meta, asked a federal judge to toss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against it.
Meta claimed that the FTC failed to prove during the trial that the company violated antitrust laws and that acquiring both Instagram and WhatsApp was anticompetitive. The FTC opened its case against Meta in 2020 under President Donald Trump, arguing it operated an illegal monopoly.
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