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An antitrust trial against Meta that begins this week could determine if the social media giant must sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
“Federal regulators accuse the social media giant of using its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to illegally suppress competition,” Independent reports.
BREAKING: Zuckerberg could be forced to sell Instagram in landmark antitrust trial — BBC
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Per Independent:
If the Federal Trade Commission, which brought the suit in 2020, gets it way, Meta could have to spin the popular apps into their own companies, the first major corporate break-up of the Big Tech era and one of the most aggressive anti-trust cases in decades.
Will Mark Zuckerberg’s recent attempts to build a closer relationship with President Trump be enough to stop the worst potential impacts of the case, or will the social media landscape soon look very different? Here’s what you need to know.
In the trial, which will take place in federal court in Washington, D.C., before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, regulators plan to argue that Facebook’s purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 were illegal attempts to gain monopoly control under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890…
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