Facebook once again asked federal judges to dismiss the federal trade commission antitrust suits against social networks. In new submissions, the company argues that the government “still does not have a factual basis for accusing the power of monopoly.”
The FTC initially filed an antitrust demand for the company last December. A judge rejected the complaint in June, said the government case was “inadequate,” but gave the opportunity to FTC to trigger. FTC filed a new complaint in August. Changed complaints rely on the same argument but more detail than the initial settings. In it, the government argues that Facebook uses the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram to cancel rivals which are seen as “existential threats.”
“The complaint accused that after an effort to fail repeatedly to develop innovative cellular features for its network, Facebook instead used an illegal purchase or-burial scheme to maintain its dominance,” FTC wrote in a statement at that time. “Less serious competition, Facebook has been able to hone the supervision-based advertising model and impose a continuous burden on its users.”
The judge has reached November 17 to respond. Even if Facebook managed to get a newly dismissed FTC lawsuit, the company still faces many other investigations in policy and practice. European regulators have also opened an antitrust probe into social networks, and British competition supervisors also reportedly investigated the company. Meanwhile, in the US, Facebook was still shaken from the fall of the Whistleblower who had given thousands of documents to the Congress and the Securities Commission and the exchange, which he said proved the company “chose the return on security.” Whistleblower, former product manager Frances Haugen, is scheduled to testify at the Senate Commercial Committee on Tuesday morning.
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