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Federal Trade Commission FTC vs FACEBOOK
Federal Trade Commission FTC vs FACEBOOK
1:20-cv-02590-JEB
James E. Boasberg
Facebook, INC>
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/051_2021.01.21_revised_partially_redacted_complaint.pdf
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
FTC Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W.
Washington DC 20580
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The Federal Trade Commission has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. The complaint alleges that Facebook has engaged in a systematic strategy—including its 2012 acquisition of up-and-coming rival Instagram, its 2014 acquisition of the mobile messaging app WhatsApp, and the imposition of anticompetitive conditions on software developers—to eliminate threats to its monopoly. The Commission vote to authorize staff to file for a permanent injunction and other equitable relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was 3-2. Commissioners Noah Joshua Phillips and Christine S. Wilson voted no.