The case brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Meta, accusing the tech company of being a social media monopoly, was dismissed by Federal Judge James Boasberg, granting the company the victory.

As you may recall, in 2020 the Commission sued Meta, “accusing it of violating antitrust law by acquiring potential emerging rivals such as Instagram and WhatsApp to avoid having to compete with them.”

Judge Boasberg dismissed the case after a seven-week trial, where Mark Zuckerberg, owner of the brand, argued that Meta faces strong competition from YouTube and TikTok.

The argument was accepted by the legal expert, who stated that “TikTok and YouTube prevent Meta from monopolizing the social media market.” He also referred to the changes that have occurred in the social media sector since the Commission filed the case, mentioning the generation of content with AI, which weakened the agency’s arguments.

The ruling in favor of Meta is also a victory for Silicon Valley, “as US regulators increasingly seek to curb the power of Big Tech” such as Google, Apple, and Amazon.

M.Pino

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Under the accusation of having collected data from minor users without their parents’ permission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have filed a lawsuit against the TikTok platform.

Both organizations argue that “the popular video sharing application violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act” and stressed that it committed a widespread violation of laws that protect children’s privacy.

It is estimated that millions of children under 13 years of age have suffered from sustained data collection. Also, they have “interacted with adult users and have accessed adult content,” according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

TikTok is accused of allowing minors to create accounts and browse its social network, “frequented by 170 million people in the United States.” Data collection has been sustained since 2019; likewise, the information has been stored without parental knowledge or authorization, even in the case of accounts created in Kids Mode.

Deputy Attorney General Brian Boynton indicated that the fine is a necessary action to prevent minors under 13 from using regular TikTok. He warned that the defendants, “who are repeat offenders and operate on a large scale, must be prevented from collecting and using private data of young children without parental consent or control.”

It was learned that in June, the United States Consumer Protection Agency (FTC) presented a report to the Department of Justice in June regarding suspicions of violation of the law by TikTok and ByteDance.

TikTok spokespersons have regretted the measure, and have indicated that they are accused of past practices, which have already been corrected. They noted that they are disappointed that the Department of Justice chose the fine instead of continuing to work together to find a reasonable solution.

They recalled that they have taken measures to protect children, such as deleting accounts of those under 13 years of age and limiting viewing time.

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The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an antitrust complaint against Facebook, which had been initially dismissed last June, alleging that the multinational resorted to an illegal scheme to acquire successful competing companies or bury those that could threaten their dominance.

At the end of June, Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia Court determined that the allegations against the social network presented by the FTC were “insufficient”, so he dismissed his claim, noting that the federal agency had not alleged sufficient facts to plausibly establish that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for personal social networking services.

However, the judge gave the FTC 30 days to amend his claim and resubmit a lawsuit, a deadline that was later extended until August 19.

In the amendment to its claim, the FTC accuses the network that, lacking serious competitive threats, the company “has been able to perfect an advertising model based on surveillance and impose increasing burdens on its users.”

“Facebook lacked the business acumen and technical talent to survive the transition to mobile devices and unable to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat”, said Holly Vedova, Acting Director of the FTC Competition Office.

In this regard, the amendment to the complaint filed by the FTC notes that executives at Mark Zuckerberg’s company addressed this existential threat by purchasing mobile innovators, including rival Instagram in 2012 and the mobile messaging app WhatsApp in 2014, which had succeeded where Facebook had failed.

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This Monday, June 28, a United States judge refuted the two accusations that Facebook was facing for alleged monopolistic practices. Judge James Boasberg determined that there was insufficient evidence to continue to accuse the company of abusing its market power.

Judge Boasberg, in his brief, states that the lawsuit filed by the government and the coalition did not have the arguments that will determine the action against what is established by law by the technology company.

However, the accusing party will have thirty days to modify the claim and present it again to the judge, if it considers it pertinent.

As it will be recalled, last December 2020, the president of the United States Republic for that moment, Donald Trump, through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition made up of 46 states, accused formally to the tech company Facebook for violating antitrust laws.

If the federal and fiscal regulators of the states that made up the coalition can verify the monopolistic practices of the social network, the court could force Mark Zuckerberg to sell the other two social networks: Instagram and WhatsApp.

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