A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can proceed with an antitrust lawsuit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, after dismissing the case in June last year.
District of Columbia Judge James Boasberg said in a memorandum opinion that the FTC’s first complaint had “stumbled out of the starting blocks,” noting that the court had concluded last year that the commission had failed to plausibly allege “that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) services.”
