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US FTC failed to prove Meta has monopoly power, company says in post trial brief

( August 6, 2025, 19:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a Washington DC federal court that the US Federal Trade Commission failed to prove that Meta has a monopoly over everything people do on Facebook and Instagram, which is defined by the agency as “personal social networking services.” Even if the court were to accept both the FTC’s "artificial and underinclusive market" and its unbounded theory of exclusionary conduct, the case would still fail under the DC Circuit’s burden-shifting framework for Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the company said in a post-trial brief. "The FTC has no evidence that the uncontested, multi-hundred-billion-dollar consumer-welfare benefits that resulted from the acquisitions would have materialized without Meta’s acquisitions. Speculation is no substitute for proof, and there is no proof that the 'but-for' world without the acquisitions would have brought U.S. consumers the expanded and improved free mobile apps that they enjoy today, much less that U.S. consumers would have gotten something better or more quickly," the filing said.See attached document...

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