US judge rules Meta purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp did not stifle competitionThe ruling is a major setback for the US Federal Trade Commission, which is pursuing a separate antitrust case against Amazon. The agency s...
18 Nov, 2025, 11.37 PM IST
Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal latest test of AI partnershipsUnlike an acquisition or a transaction that would give Meta a controlling stake, the deal does not require a review by US antitrust regulat...
14 Jun, 2025, 08.01 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why the US government wants to break up MetaBack in 2020, the FTC sued Meta (then known as Facebook), arguing that it had illegally maintained monopoly power by acquiring competitors ...
15 Apr, 2025, 02.34 PM IST
US prepares to challenge Meta's social media dominanceMeta has countered that it faces ample competition in social media from TikTok, Snap, Reddit and LinkedIn, and that regulators approved the...
14 Apr, 2025, 08.57 AM IST
Donald Trump admin to press ahead with Amazon, Meta antitrust casesIn an interview with FOX Business, newly appointed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson confirmed that ongoing cases agains...
21 Feb, 2025, 07.49 AM IST
US antitrust case against Google is just the startUnder the Trump administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission started investigating Amazon, Apple, Google and Met...
04 May, 2024, 08.29 AM IST
Meta cannot delay US FTC from reopening privacy probe, court saysThe Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its order found that Meta had not shown its challenge was likely t...
30 Mar, 2024, 09.01 AM IST
European regulators crack down on Big TechApple, Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google could receive hefty fines by the end of the year for alleged breaches including disparaging riv...
25 Mar, 2024, 07.51 PM IST
European regulators crack down on Big TechApple, Meta Platforms and Google are set to be investigated for potential violations of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) that...
22 Mar, 2024, 11.44 PM IST
South Korea regulator may sanction Meta over marketplace: reportsThe Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) had investigated possible violations of the country's e-commerce law and had sent an examination repo...
08 Mar, 2024, 04.29 PM IST
US judge to hear Meta privacy dispute with FTC next monthThe agency proposed tightening a 2019 consent agreement, that had forced Facebook, which became Meta in 2021, to pay a $5 billion penalty.
12 Dec, 2023, 12.05 AM IST
EU antitrust regulators rejected Meta offer to curb use of ad data, sources sayMeta Platforms offered to curb the use of competitors' advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified service in an attemp...
25 Jul, 2023, 10.12 PM IST
Meta loses as top EU court backs antitrust regulators over privacy breach checksAntitrust authorities overseeing firms such as Facebook owner Meta Platforms are entitled to also assess privacy breaches, Europe's top cou...
04 Jul, 2023, 05.03 PM IST
German antitrust watchdog can add privacy breaches to Meta probe, EU court saysThe case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerns a 2019 German cartel office order to Meta to st...
04 Jul, 2023, 02.14 PM IST
Meta battles US antitrust agency over future of virtual realityThe FTC sued in July to stop the deal, saying Meta's acquisition of Within would "tend to create a monopoly" in the market for virtual real...
09 Dec, 2022, 10.14 AM IST
EU antitrust regulators about to charge Meta, sources sayThe Commission began an investigation into the social network company in June last year. Britain's competition agency also began an enquiry...
10 Nov, 2022, 05.12 PM IST
FTC agrees to remove Mark Zuckerberg as defendant in antitrust suitIn June, the FTC filed its complaint with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to prevent Meta and Zuckerberg from a...
24 Aug, 2022, 10.16 AM IST