{"id":876855,"date":"2024-11-14T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=876855"},"modified":"2024-11-14T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:34:59","slug":"meta-to-face-antitrust-trial-in-us-over-instagram-whatsapp-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/14\/meta-to-face-antitrust-trial-in-us-over-instagram-whatsapp-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to face antitrust trial in US over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta Platforms must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media, a judge in Washington ruled on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The FTC sued Meta&#8217;s Facebook in 2020, during the Trump administration, alleging that the company acted illegally to maintain its social network monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta Platforms must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media, a judge in Washington ruled on Wednesday. The FTC sued Meta&#8217;s Facebook in 2020, during the Trump administration, alleging that the company acted illegally to maintain its social network monopoly.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876855","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=876855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}