{"id":299854,"date":"2025-11-18T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299854\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:19:12","slug":"meta-wins-ftc-antitrust-trial-over-instagram-whatsapp-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299854\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/META:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Meta Platforms Inc<\/a>. won a key court ruling that the company\u2019s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don\u2019t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington said the Federal Trade Commission failed to prove the deals allowed the tech giant to illegally monopolize the social networking market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company\u2019s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7761,8543,28,11637,102,2420,9746,102983,92967,74,6664,2002],"class_list":["post-299854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-apps","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-government","tag-law","tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-technology","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}