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Facebook owner Meta Platforms must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit seeking its break-up. This Meta antitrust trial is over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media, a judge in Washington ruled on Wednes
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y. Meta once again asked the court to dismiss the FTC’s case in April. Boasberg has now ruled largely in favor of the FTC, though he dismissed a claim that Meta acted anticompetitively by preventing developers from accessing its API unless they agreed not to compete with its apps. Judge James Boasberg largely denied Meta’s motion to end