Facebook asks US federal court to dismiss antitrust cases
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In lawsuits filed in December, the US Federal Trade Commission and individual states asked the court to force Facebook to sell two prized assets, its messaging app WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram.
Facebook asked a United States federal court on Wednesday to dismiss major antitrust cases filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and nearly every US state, saying they failed to show the company had a monopoly or harmed consumers. “By a one-vote margin, in the fraught environment of relentless criticism of Facebook for matters entirely unrelated to antitrust concerns, the agency decided to bring a case against Facebook,” Facebook said in its response to the FTC complaint. “None of the harms typically alleged in antitrust actions is alleged here,” it said.More Related News