{"id":922715,"date":"2025-04-16T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922715"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:31:57","slug":"ettech-explainer-why-the-us-government-wants-to-break-up-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/16\/ettech-explainer-why-the-us-government-wants-to-break-up-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"ETtech Explainer: Why the US government wants to break up Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is facing its most serious legal challenge yet \u2014 one that could force it to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a major antitrust case against Meta, accusing it of buying rivals to kill off competition and build a social media monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is facing its most serious legal challenge yet \u2014 one that could force it to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a major antitrust case against Meta, accusing it of buying rivals to kill off competition and build a social media monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-922715","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\/922715","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}