The FTC says Meta is shutting out competition and unfairly profiting from it. ... Meta and the FTC face off in antitrust trial. Posted: April 14, 2025 | Last updated: April 14, 2025.

He has now set the case trial for April 14. During the Trump administration, the FTC sued Meta, then called Facebook, alleging that the company acted illegally to maintain its social network monopoly.

Meta motioned to end the case last April, but Boasberg denied it, ruling in November that the company must face trial. In a small victory for Meta, however, Boasberg did dismiss the FTC's ...

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the ...

Meta Platforms Inc. faces an April 14 trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust lawsuit to break up the company. US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the trial ...

Meta, then known as Facebook, overpaid for Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate nascent threats instead of competing on its own in the mobile ecosystem, the FTC claims.

Meta will face off against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday in a high-stakes antitrust trial that could result in the company divesting Instagram and WhatsApp. Stream Los Angeles News ...