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Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp
Will the Trump administration change anything?
Meta must face the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit that accuses the company of dominating the social media industry through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, a DC District Court Judge ruled on Wednesday. Boasberg has now ruled largely in favor of the FTC, though he dismissed a claim that Meta acted anticompetitively by preventing developers from accessing its API unless they agreed not to compete with its apps. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Big Tech leaders, has already started to cozy up to Trump, who’s expected to replace FTC Chair Lina Khan.
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