Marc Zuckerberg, CEO of Mita, in the inauguration of President Trump in the American Capitol on January 20, 2025. Mita is facing an anti -monopoly experience that begins on Monday.
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The anti -monopoly case affiliated with the Federal Trade Committee against Mita will start on Monday in the courtroom in Washington. It is the culmination of nearly six years in whether the social media giant has broke the competition laws in obtaining Instagram and WhatsApp.
At stake, there are advertising works for Future Meta, which cost $ 1.4 trillion and the possibility of having to overcome its highly common services in separate companies – the disintegration of companies that have not been seen since AT & T monopoly on the phone has been forced more than 40 years ago.
FTC and Meta lawyers will submit opening data on Monday before the American boycott judge James Boasberg in a trial who is expected to extend for seven to eight weeks.
Groups of evidence and dozens of witnesses will be examined. The government plans to contact the CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the former director of operations, Sherrill Sandberg and Instagram President, Adam Museri, to the position of witnesses.
What is the FTC issue against Meta?
the The ftc argues When Meta acquired Instagram, in 2012, and WhatsApp, two years later, that was part of a strategy to eliminate competition and maintain monopolistic power over the social media market. The government claims that the “purchase or burial” strategy prompted the acquisitions of Mita, which led Mita to overcome competitors who considered it threats, or crushing competitors completely from work. In an internal electronic plan in 2012, the government lawyers’ plan to present, Zuckerberg wrote that the purchase of Instagram was driven by the desire to “neutralize a potential competitor.” FTC says this alleged behavior is illegal under federal monopoly laws.
What treatment does the Federal Trade Committee want?
The government argues that the only way to restore competition to the social media market is to force Meta to relax the purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. The government says that stripping these applications will allow smaller social media companies to compete for consumers and advertising dollars and reduce a dead grip on the industry.
How is you expected to respond dead in court?
Meta meters punishable as it is an innovative and aggressive technical company. Meta’s lawyers say he always competes fairly, and the organizers are trying to punish the success of the fleeing Tech Titan. Meta’s lawyers also said in the court files that Instagram and WhatsApp have been approved by the organizers for more than a decade.
However, FTC asserts that Meta was not an imminent for the organizers who have cleared purchases, claiming that Mita has blocked major information about the company to win the blessing of Washington. Another important aspect of Meta’s defense is the crowded social media world today, compared to 2012 and 2014, when the company performed these purchases. Mita says she is facing fierce competition from Elon Markta X, Tiktok, Snapchat and many other social media platforms.
In a statement before the opening, Meta said: “Its evidence will appear in the trial what it knows every year in the world: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp compete with Chinese -owned Tiktok, YouTube, X, IMessage and many others. After more than 10 years of FTC review and wiping it in the field In which there is no deal ever.
What does this mean for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users if you forced Meta to separate?
the FTC says it means more powerful competition between startups on social media, and therefore better quality services for everyone. Government lawyers argue that Meta services have been partially deteriorated due to their dominant situation in the market.
Organizers also say that the protection of the Meta privacy has passed as a result of the alleged monopoly state. To FTC, the separation will be translated into a more vibrant social media scene, as new letters can go to the soles of the feet with Meta applications. But Mita confirms the opposite: that disintegration will make each of its individual applications less integrated and worse for consumers after many years in which the META systems and their data are intertwined.
What about the case policy? How to play the relationship of CEO Mark Zuckerberg with Trump in this trial?
This issue began for the first time in Trump’s first state, in December 2020. When Trump was still suffering from a bitter conflict with Zuckerberg, but the two were less confrontation recently. Before winning the November elections, Trump threatened to throw Zuckerberg in prison, saying that if Zuckerberg’s platforms have done anything to harm Trump’s chances of the campaign’s path, he may “spend the rest of his life in prison.”
Like many other executives in the Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg recently cleared himself with the Trump administration. Zuckeberg publicly praised Trump. Donate a million dollars to Trump’s opening committee; Trump approved $ 25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump because of her suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the aftermath of January 6; He has made transformations at the company’s level compatible with Trump’s priorities, such as ending the Facebook and Instagram facts program, diversity, shares and inclusion programs. Zuckerberg also visited Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club to pressure the president to drop the case.
There was speculation that Trump could abandon trial and stability with the definition, but so far, all indications indicate that the case attached. FTC Andrew Ferguson President said his lawyer “preparing to go” against Mita. However, he also said that he “obeying legal orders” from the president. In other words, the beginning of the trial does not take a settlement from time. The two sides can reach a settlement in the midst of the trial, although legal experts say it is very unlikely.