{"id":986947,"date":"2026-01-21T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986947"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:58:30","slug":"metas-20-billion-acquisitions-of-instagram-and-whatsapp-back-under-fire-as-us-government-appeals-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/metas-20-billion-acquisitions-of-instagram-and-whatsapp-back-under-fire-as-us-government-appeals-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s $20 billion acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp back under fire as US government appeals loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission is taking another swing at Meta, filing an appeal Tuesday to challenge a November ruling that cleared the tech giant of monopoly charges. The move keeps alive the government&#8217;s years-long effort to potentially force Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp\u2014acquisitions made over a decade ago for $1 billion and $19 billion respectively.<\/p>\n<p>US District Judge James Boasberg had sided with Meta last year, concluding the company doesn&#8217;t hold an illegal monopoly in personal social networking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission is taking another swing at Meta, filing an appeal Tuesday to challenge a November ruling that cleared the tech giant of monopoly charges. The move keeps alive the government&#8217;s years-long effort to potentially force Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp\u2014acquisitions made over a decade ago for $1 billion and $19 billion respectively. US District Judge James Boasberg had sided with Meta last year, concluding the company doesn&#8217;t hold an illegal monopoly in personal social networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986947","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}