Meta antitrust trial: updates from the monopoly battle with the FTC

A long-awaited trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicks off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Judge James Boasberg will hear arguments about whether Facebook illegally monopolized the market for personal social networking services through its 2012 and 2014 acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

The FTC first brought the case in late 2020, and while it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward because the government…