Meta is trying to obtain the anti -monopoly case in the middle of the trial

FTC was just based on its case after the testimony in a case of anti -monopoly against Meta. But before Meta was able to start its defense, the company’s lawyers chose another step: the judge’s demand to completely cancel the case.

The company presented On Thursday, we asked the provincial judge, James Boasberg, to throw the FTC case, on the pretext that the organizer did not prove that Meta was acting anti -blood. “Meta has made two promising mobile applications with an uncertain probability: two of the most successful applications in the world, enjoying nearly half of the planet’s population (including hundreds of millions of American consumers) upon request, in unlimited quantities, all for free,” Filling did not carry FTC “does not carry it” to prove that “META” is currently spent “Antort.”

The company’s thinking is similar to the previous arguments that were presented on the FTC case. Meta said that Instagram and WhatsApp have been able to grow to user services that amount to one billion company users due to the company’s investments. The company also With FTC claim that there is a lack of competition for “personal social media services”. (FTC argued that the only competitors in social networks are Snapchat and A small social application that focuses on privacy that works on no central protocols.)

So far, the month -long trial witnessed a number of former executives in Meta, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former operations director Sherrill Sandberg and the founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom. Their testimony revealed About the internal business of the social media company and its tactics to stay at the top of potential competitors.