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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. META PLATFORMS, INC.

  1. April 28, 2025

    Exec 'Can't Believe' X Offers Itself As Place For Friends

    The Federal Trade Commission pressed executives and former leaders from X Corp., Strava, Pinterest and Reddit on Monday for all the things that distinguish their services from Meta Platforms Inc., painting Facebook and Instagram in D.C. federal court as effectively the only place to really connect with friends and family to show the social media giant's alleged monopoly.

  2. April 22, 2025

    Instagram Founder Says Meta 'Starved' Co. After Acquisition

    During testimony in the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly case against Meta on Tuesday, the founder of Instagram said his company was "starved" after being acquired by Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg grappled with "a lot of emotion" over Instagram siphoning users away from its parent company's flagship platform.

  3. April 17, 2025

    Sandberg Says FTC Market View Makes No Sense In Meta Case

    Meta Platforms' former longtime board member and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg pushed back Thursday on crucial Federal Trade Commission arguments trying to shape the market the social media giant is accused of monopolizing, criticizing a friends and family definition the FTC is using to exclude TikTok as a competitor.

  4. April 16, 2025

    Zuckerberg Calls TikTok Meta's 'Highest Competitive Threat'

    Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday on Federal Trade Commission efforts to cabin the company's allegedly monopolistic social media dominance into a market that excludes TikTok and YouTube, telling a D.C. federal judge video has become the new predominant form of social media interaction.

  5. April 15, 2025

    Zuckerberg Calls Buying Rival, Building Co. Two Sides Of 1 Coin

    Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried Tuesday to distance himself from internal documents describing Instagram and WhatsApp as competitive threats, pushing back on Federal Trade Commission monopolization claims by arguing in D.C. federal court that the owner of Facebook was always focused on improvements to itself and the acquisitions.

  6. April 14, 2025

    Linking Friends No Longer Meta's Focus, Zuckerberg Says

    Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Monday that the social media giant is no longer solely focused on connecting friends and family, arguing on the first day of the Federal Trade Commission's monopolization trial that the company has broader focus and faces more competition than the FTC claims.

  7. April 10, 2025

    Meta Trial Rooted In Decade-Old WhatsApp, Instagram Buys

    Federal Trade Commission lawyers are set for a trial Monday that will assess the exact scope of competition that Meta Platform's offerings face providing personal social media services and the reach of monopolization allegations targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

  8. April 03, 2025

    Google, Apple Staff Must Testify In Meta Antitrust Case

    A D.C. federal judge said current and former employees of Google, Apple, TikTok, X Corp., Snap and other tech companies must testify at the Federal Trade Commission's upcoming antitrust trial against Meta Platforms Inc.

  9. March 27, 2025

    Google, Apple Staff Want Out Of Testifying In FTC-Meta Case

    Current and former employees of Google, Apple, TikTok, X Corp., Snap and Epic Games asked a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to quash subpoenas seeking their live testimony in the Federal Trade Commission's upcoming antitrust trial against Meta Platforms, arguing their taped depositions make the burden of testifying unnecessary.

  10. March 21, 2025

    Meta Defends Need For Current Data In FTC Case

    Meta Platforms Inc. told a D.C. federal court the company should be able to use the most recent data it has during next month's trial in the Federal Trade Commission's case accusing the Facebook parent company of monopolizing personal social networking.

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