FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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Facebook and Instagram traffic surged when TikTok went down.
During Meta’s opening defense arguments against the FTC, it showed the court data from when TikTok was briefly offline before President Trump intervened to bring it back. While TikTok was down, Facebook usage spiked 20 percent and Instagram usage surged 17 percent.
This data is meant to poke holes in the FTC’s definition of the market for this antitrust case, since it excludes TikTok (and a bunch of other platforms) in favor of only Snapchat and, for some reason, MeWe. If Meta can convince Judge Boasberg that the FTC’s market definition isn’t right, the agency’s case falls apart.
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