The fate of social media giant Meta, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s primary company, is on the line as the trial begins in Washington to determine whether the mega-corporation is in violation of antitrust laws.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has spent the past six years investigating Meta, is expected to argue before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp locked in an illegal monopoly over social networking.