Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 20-3590 (JEB) META PLATFORMS, INC., Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION How times have changed. Not so long ago, a company called Facebook so dominated the provision of personal social-networking services that a movie charting its rise was entitled simply “The Social Network.” Fifteen years later — and four years into the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust suit against it — that company (now called Meta) argues that the market with which it was once nearly synonymous does not even…