The FTC has just reached its file after weeks of testimony in a historic antitrust case against Meta. But before Meta could start her defense, the company’s lawyers opted for another decision: asking the judge to completely reject the case.
The company filed the American district judge James Boasberg on Thursday to throw the case of the FTC, arguing that the regulator has not proven that the meta acted in an anticuvering manner. “Meta has created two promising mobile applications with uncertain perspectives: two of the most successful applications in the world, including around half of the population of the planet (including hundreds of millions of American consumers) on demand, in unlimited quantities, all for free”, says the deposit, “the FTC has not worn to prove that Meta” Antitrust. “”
The company’s reasoning is similar to the previous arguments that it is advanced concerning the case of the FTC. Meta said Instagram and WhatsApp were able to go to services to one million users due to business investments. The company also affirmed the FTC that there is a lack of competition for “personal social networking”. (The FTC argued that Meta’s only competitors for social networks are Snapchat and, a small social application focused on privacy that works on decentralized protocols.)
Until now, the trial of one month has seen a certain number of great current and old leaders to take a position, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former chief of the operations Sheryl Sandberg and the Instagram co -founder Kevin Systrom. Their testimony revealed the interior functioning of the social media society and its tactics to stay ahead of potential competitors.
