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Meta’s Fate Now Rests With a Judge

The New York Times · Cecilia Kang · last updated

A trial representing the most consequential challenge to Meta’s power online concluded on Tuesday, putting the future of the social networking giant into the hands of a federal judge.

The case — Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms — wrapped up after six weeks of testimony from 38 witnesses at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They included Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, who was grilled by government lawyers accusing him of acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp in a “buy or bury” strategy to cement his company’s social networking monopoly.

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The Federal Trade Commission charges that Meta monopolized social networking via Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The trial concluded in May and now awaits a judge’s opinion in the U.S. District Court for D.C. The case is being closely watched as other antitrust lawsuits target Google and Apple.

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