{"id":132865,"date":"2025-09-08T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/08\/ftc-claims-meta-holds-unlawful-social-media-monopoly-in-post-trial-arguments\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:37:59","slug":"ftc-claims-meta-holds-unlawful-social-media-monopoly-in-post-trial-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/08\/ftc-claims-meta-holds-unlawful-social-media-monopoly-in-post-trial-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Claims Meta Holds Unlawful Social Media Monopoly in Post-Trial Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Meta has no answer to trial evidence showing that it maintained its monopoly power by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp,” FTC attorneys alleged in post-trial court documents asking U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia to find Meta Platforms liable for alleged Sherman Act violations.<\/p>\n

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“Meta has no answer to trial evidence showing that it maintained its monopoly power by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp,” FTC attorneys alleged in post-trial court documents asking U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia to find Meta Platforms liable for alleged Sherman Act violations.<\/p>\n

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“Meta has no answer to trial evidence showing that it maintained its monopoly power by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp,” FTC attorneys alleged in post-trial court documents asking U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia to find Meta Platforms liable for alleged Sherman Act violations. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Meta has no answer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-t1OPZz.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}