The FTC had alleged Facebook engaged in a "systematic strategy" to eliminate its competition, including by purchasing smaller up-and-coming rivals like Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.

US regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user ...

Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014 – both deals approved by President Barack Obama’s FTC.

Mark Zuckerberg’s emails fretting about how to stop rivals like Instagram from catching Facebook are powerful evidence at the FTC’s antitrust trial – and the case could ultimately hinge on ...

At the time, Facebook struggled to adapt its service for mobile devices, the FTC says. The FTC seeks to force Meta to restructure or sell parts of its business including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Part of the FTC's complaint says that between 2012 and 2020, Facebook was hugely dominant in the space of "personal social networking" (the kind of social network where you talk to friends and ...

The FTC’s lead attorney Dan Matheson is driving home the point that Meta knows that people want to see posts from their friends when they come to Facebook, by looking at a 2021 internal ...

More than a decade after Snap Inc. SNAP turned down a multibillion-dollar buyout from Facebook, the failed deal is back in the spotlight as Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Meta Platforms Inc.'s META ...

Facebook is distinct from other popular social media apps. That’s what we’re hearing from the FTC’s expert witness, Professor Cliff Lampe, an expert on human-computer interaction.

What's this MeWe that the FTC says is a competitor to Facebook? I cover tech, and I'd never heard of it. So I downloaded it and tried it for myself.