{"id":662680,"date":"2021-08-19T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662680"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:36:33","slug":"ftc-files-antitrust-suit-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ftc-files-antitrust-suit-against-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Files Antitrust Suit Against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fftc-files-antitrust-suit-against-facebook%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.411764705882\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/\">Policy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Agency says company must sell WhatsApp, Instagram<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1232438403-1400x934.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFederal Trade Commission chairwoman Lina Khan \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 August 19, 2021 4:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"72.767270945615\">\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed an antitrust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacermonitor.com\/view\/SD2GDWQ\/FEDERAL_TRADE_COMMISSION_v_FACEBOOK_INC__dcdce-20-03590__0075.1.pdf?mcid=tGE3TEOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint<\/a> against Facebook that alleges the social media giant acquired competitors to stifle competition.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is refiling a claim a federal judge tossed out in June. The judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/28\/technology\/facebook-ftc-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> the FTC had not proved Facebook has a monopoly in the personal social networking market, but gave the agency an opportunity to refile the case. The FTC is an independent federal agency tasked with enforcing antitrust laws. If it prevails in this case, Facebook will be required to sell WhatsApp and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The case is a major test for newly appointed FTC chairwoman and big tech critic Lina Khan. Khan has advocated for laws that broaden definitions of anticompetitive behavior, even in cases like Facebook\u2019s where the product is free for consumers. The traditional consumer-welfare standard says companies must cause immediate harm to consumers through higher prices in order to be considered monopolies.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC voted 3-2 along party lines to refile the complaint, with both Republican commissioners criticizing the move. The amended complaint provides more evidence that Facebook\u2019s size and market share make it a monopolist. It argues social media companies like TikTok are not Facebook competitors, since they connect users with random content creators instead of friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat,&#8221; said Holly Vedova, acting director for the FTC\u2019s Bureau of Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook denied that it was a monopoly, saying its &#8220;acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were reviewed and cleared many years ago, and our platform policies were lawful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On July 14, Facebook called for Khan to recuse herself from any cases involving the company, citing her past criticism of it. In a press release Thursday, the FTC wrote that the agency\u2019s general counsel reviewed the matter and that Khan would not recuse herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Agency says company must sell WhatsApp, Instagram  Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Lina Khan \/ Getty Images  Santi Ruiz \u2022 August 19, 2021 4:20 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}