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FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp

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Does Google think Meta is its competition?

Meta and the FTC point to different parts of Google’s filings to international regulators to reinforce their views of the market. In an Australian filing where Google was attempting to avoid a social media probe, it stated that even though digital products can have overlapping audiences, “there are a number of use cases that only social media platforms such as Facebook can satisfy.” It earlier told European regulators that it competes with social networks for users.

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