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Meta vs. FTC: Judge Rejects Meta’s Bid To Throw Out Case Early
The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a ...
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta seeks mid-trial dismissal of FTC antitrust battle
Meta is battling a high-stakes antitrust case brought by the FTC, with the trial nearing a critical juncture. Meta has ...
How Trump 2.0 is changing the FTC, and what it means for Big Tech
Since President Donald Trump took office in January and replaced former FTC Chair Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has undergone a series of changes.
Meta Pleads With Judge To Dismiss FTC's Antitrust Case in High-Stakes Trial
Meta urged a federal judge to dismiss the significant antitrust case filed by the FTC during an ongoing trial that could ...
Meta asks judge to toss FTC case
Meta asked a federal judge Thursday to toss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) case against the social media giant, arguing ...
Meta Shares Usage Insights in FTC Trial
Meta’s ongoing court battle against the FTC, which could result in Meta being forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp due to ...
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it ...
Meta asks judge to toss FTC antitrust case
Meta claimed that the Federal Trade Commission failed to prove during the five-week trial that the company violated antitrust ...
Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, ...
Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it’s currently fighting in court. The motion argues that the ...
Did WhatsApp really need Meta?
In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...