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Meta’s defense against the charge that it has a monopoly on social networking is that social networking no longer exists.
FTC Chairman puts 13 major companies on notice that weakening US consumer protections could violate federal law.
Meta Platforms' monopoly in the "personal social networking services" market enabled the company "to increase ad load and reap supracompetitive profits," the FTC argues in new court papers.
Fresh off the UK's retreat from its iCloud surveillance demand, the FTC is telling US big tech that data security isn't up ...
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned Apple , Alphabet , and other technology companies on Thursday that ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that ...
The action marked a new FTC salvo against Meta — the owner of Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp in addition to Facebook — in the agency’s drive against what it views as anticompetitive ...
Now shareholders want Zuckerberg and others to reimburse Meta for the FTC fine and other legal costs, which the plaintiffs estimate total more than $8 billion.
Meta to restrict Instagram’s new real-time location-sharing tool, citing risks to children and vulnerable users. The f ...
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) penned a letter this week to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, demanding the company hand over all relevant documents and communications related to new disturbing reporting ...
The FTC's new memo comes in a battle with Meta dating to December 2020, when the agency alleged that Meta's acquisition of Instagram (purchased for $1 billion in 2012) and (bought for $19 billion ...