Meta Faces Antitrust Trial Over WhatsApp and Instagram Deals

April 14, 2025, 9:21 am

Legal challenges regarding Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp have escalated into an antitrust trial. Regulators allege that the mergers were executed through predatory “buy-or-bury” schemes, raising concerns about monopolistic practices that have reshaped the social networking landscape. The trial will scrutinize whether these acquisitions have unfairly constrained competition in the industry.

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techinasia.com / Zuckerberg denies suppressing competition in trial testimony

The FTC argues that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 were intended to eliminate competition.

bgr.com / After ruining Instagram, Meta might be forced to break up with it altogether

Whenever I open Instagram these days, I find myself wondering what, exactly, it’s trying to be. A TikTok clone? A shopping app? A cluttered dashboard … The post After ruining Instagram, Meta might be forced to break up with it altogether appeared first on BGR.

androidheadlines.com / Lina Khan Says Facebook ‘Panicked’ — And That’s Why It Bought Instagram and WhatsApp

The post Lina Khan Says Facebook ‘Panicked’ — And That’s Why It Bought Instagram and WhatsApp appeared first on Android Headlines.

arstechnica.com / Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial

FTC’s “entire” monopoly case rests on decade-old emails, Meta argued.

winbuzzer.com / Meta Board Appoints Former Trump Advisor Amid FTC Trial Start

Meta Platforms has appointed former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board as it faces a landmark FTC antitrust trial challenging its acquisitions. The post Meta Board Appoints Former Trump Advisor Amid FTC Trial Start appeared first on WinBuzzer.

wsj.com / Meta Fights to Keep Instagram and WhatsApp, as Antitrust Trial Begins

The Federal Trade Commission says Meta has monopolized the social-media market—and should be broken up.

tomshardware.com / AMD splits ROCm toolkit into two parts – ROCm AMDGPU drivers get their own branch under Instinct datacenter GPU moniker

AMD is bifurcating its ROCm open-source software stack with a separate branch for its Linux AMDGPU drivers that now take on the AMD Instinct moniker.

zerohedge.com / Meta's Monopoly Trial Kicks Off: Here's What To Know

Meta's Monopoly Trial Kicks Off: Here's What To Know Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The fate of social media giant Meta, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s primary company, is on the line as a trial begins in Washington on Monday to determine whether the tech giant is...

cnbc.com / Meta resorted to 'buy-or-bury scheme' with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, former FTC Chair Lina Khan says

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp drastically changed the social networking ecosystem.

theverge.com / 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...

androidheadlines.com / Meta to face trial over its WhatsApp & Instagram acquisitions

The post Meta to face trial over its WhatsApp & Instagram acquisitions appeared first on Android Headlines.

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