Meta asked a federal judge Thursday to toss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) case against the social media giant, arguing the agency failed to prove at trial that the company violated

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg, a claim that bolsters Meta’s defense as it faces federal antitrust allegations.

Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while dismissing "smoking gun" emails from Mark Zuckerberg discussing buying Instagram to bury it as "legally irrelevant."

A federal district court has jurisdiction to consider Meta Platforms Inc.'s challenge to an FTC enforcement action in a long-running consumer privacy dispute, a federal appeals court said Friday.

Meta’s ongoing court battle against the FTC, which could result in Meta being forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp due to anti-competitive concerns, has seen the company reveal a range of insights, as part of its broader effort to highlight that it doesn’t hold a monopoly share of the digital ads market,

Meta has filed a motion requesting a US federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust lawsuit.

In a court filing submitted on Thursday, the parent company of Facebook claimed the FTC’s case, presented over a five-week trial, did not establish the central allegations of unlawful monopolisation of the personal social networking market.

Meta Platforms is seeking dismissal of the FTC's antitrust case that accuses the company of maintaining an illegal social media monopoly. The case focuses on Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Meta Asks Judge to Rule That FTC Failed to Prove Its Monopoly Case By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Facebook parent company Meta Platforms asked a federal judge on Thursday to throw out the U.S. Federal ...