
Despite the recent dismissal of a lawsuit against Facebook by 40 States Attorneys General, the mega social media platform still faces threats to its status as a monopoly as the losers in the ruling have vowed that they will keep fighting anyway to break up Facebook through antitrust action.
Facebook Antitrust Suit Dismissal Will Be Appealed, States Say
From www.nytimes.com
2021-07-28 12:00:19
Cecilia Kang
Excerpt:
More than 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday said they planned to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, setting up a protracted legal fight to rein in the power of the Silicon Valley giant.
The states would be pushing back on a decision made last month by a federal judge who eviscerated their arguments that Facebook had obtained a monopoly through its acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 and had harmed competition. The judge said that the…