Meta is facing an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that could potentially force the company to divest platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp. Regulators allege that Meta engaged in anticompetitive behavior by acquiring emerging rivals to maintain a social networking monopoly. Meta has defended its actions, stating that the acquisitions were previously reviewed and approved, while arguing that its platforms continue to face intense market competition. A ruling against the company could lead to significant structural changes within the tech industry.
- The Federal Trade Commission alleges Meta maintained an illegal monopoly through the strategic acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.
- Regulators are seeking remedies that could include the forced divestiture or separation of Instagram and WhatsApp from Meta.
- Meta contends that the transactions were cleared by regulators at the time of purchase and that competition across the social media sector remains strong.
- The case stands as one of the most consequential antitrust challenges against a major technology company, with potential implications for future industry mergers.
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Just the children? What about the worldwide massive brain damage caused to adults?
So nobody accepts personal responsibility anymore for their addictions?????????????????????????????????????????????
How about Tik Tok?
Capitalists being on trial: yes, and? This is America.
We trusted them, and they broke our trust. They used our data against society, against humanity. They must be destroyed so that something better can take its place.
GET EM'! GET EM'!
Who's gonna take that money
Next please go after Google YouTube for their constant scam AI ads. Google has the capability to easily stop Bogus ads, yet they happily ignore the obvious fact that they are annoying scams and instead take their money and let them play on YouTube videos. MUST REGULATE GOOGLE!
children are not allowed to use the networks, adults only
Afraid that this will be just another great show and people won't get much and top 1% wont really loose much, and even if they do they will get everything back as another corp subsidy from tax payer money.
Why would you like like, subscribe to any nonsense? If you need it just consume it when you need, why disclosing yourself to aliens?Don't think anything wrong with these platform, dump idiots are taking it too far and making them as if they need so much appreciation. I think, they should creat policies to delete all stored nonsense every 5 year. If governments are destroying all files every 5 years these guy should as well. Why storing it for more than 5 years and keep building data centre cemeteries. They might argue that it help them train their AI model, but once trained it should be wipped off.
Mark Zuckerberg is a pathological liar. He stole the Facebook idea from two University students who had paid him to write the code. The original company was therefore built on a foundation of lies, theft and deception. That culture has pervaded the company ever since, with Zuckerberg approving the recruitment of Attention Engineers, Psychologists, and addiction experts to build features that keep children online for longer and feed the brain's dopamine reward system.
It's child grooming in electronic form, to create addictive behaviours as a means to sell advertising. Truly despicable corporate behaviour.
What's surprising is not that a lawsuit of this scale is happening, but that it's taken so long. Meta was allowed to become too poweful too quickly and needs breaking up, along with huge changes in regulation. The fines also need to be of such a scale that they put a huge hole in Meta's profits and share price, and act as a deterent to stop their evil practices. A $1Trillion fine plus significant legislative changes is the only suitable outcome. The money can go towards support for young people's mental health and other good causes, and the changes to the Meta platforms and advertising will cripple their financial power.
A tuly evil company, who's ex employes have reported a toxic cukture of bulying, arrogance and a disregard for public safety and regulation. Do the right thing and nail this disgraceful company and its owner to the wall, to protect future generations from the harms of social media.
It's insane. I do not use FB or IG because it's silly. But if you don't want your kids using it, stop them. Meta should be able to do what they want.
Maybe i ma the only one that hope the company will win this lawsuit :)))
Social media is a disease, a pandemic caused by greedy sickening idiots. It started with good intentions and communication, turned into a cess pit.
so amazing 😮😮😮
push them down shove them under
There should 100% be controls over scrolling with like 24 hour cooldowns of you turn them off similar to gambling.
BBC is very misinformed with how the legal system works in the U.S. If the case was that massive then it would eventually reach the supreme court which is mostly conservative and once they rule… no other court can contest it including California courts. Nothing will happen to meta.
I mean just look at Yuckerberg's eyes…completely soulless.
Why not just delete your accounts? I deleted my FB and IG accounts long time ago and never returned. Easy.
We are the ginuepigs
The comments on here blaming parents are either from people that don't have children, or people that don't have brain cells. Probably both.
I don't use either of these platforms
Ban it for everyone. It sucks.
Can't happen to a nicer guy and company.
Meta doesn't owned Tiktok
Beta has no bottom line…. And YouTube has only massive ads…. Both of them are F
Social media is the most evil thing ever made in human history
Zuckerberg is a strange strange man ,almost Alien….