{"id":1032295,"date":"2026-09-01T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032295"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:00:18","slug":"meta-defeats-instagram-shopping-monopoly-lawsuit-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/01\/meta-defeats-instagram-shopping-monopoly-lawsuit-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta defeats Instagram shopping monopoly lawsuit for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the company of illegally monopolizing shopping on Instagram by stealing the business plan of a now-defunct startup. <\/p>\n<p>Here \u200bare the details: <\/p>\n<p>US Magistrate Judge Virginia DeMarchi in San Jose, California, on Friday dismissed claims brought by London-based Ollywan, which had alleged last year that Meta copied its concept for a &#8220;tag-based&#8221; shopping platform before launching Instagram Shopping \u200cin 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the company of illegally monopolizing shopping on Instagram by stealing the business plan of a now-defunct startup. Here \u200bare the details: US Magistrate Judge Virginia DeMarchi in San Jose, California, on Friday dismissed claims brought by London-based Ollywan, which had alleged last year that Meta copied its concept for a &#8220;tag-based&#8221; shopping platform before launching Instagram Shopping \u200cin 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032320,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032295\/revisions\/1032320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}