The US Federal Trade Commission and 46 states have brought antitrust cases against Facebook, accusing the company of using its social-media dominance to crush competition and calling for penalties that could include a forced break-up.
The FTC accused Facebook of conducting a “years-long course of anti-competitive conduct”, which included strategically buying up rivals that threatened its monopoly power and cutting off services to squeeze rival developers.
In particular, the FTC highlighted the social media company’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014, respectively, as designed to neutralise competition.
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