Judge rules meta did not create monopoly with. Meta scored a major win on tuesday after a federal judge ruled that it is not a social networking monopoly, shooting down an argument from the us federal trade commission that it should be forced. District court judge james boasberg concluded that meta’s purchases of instagram and whatsapp did not violate. The federal trade commission sued the social media company in 2020, accusing it of maintaining a monopoly, years after it purchased competitors instagram and whatsapp. A us judge dismissed the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against meta on tuesday, ruling that the tech giant's acquisition of instagram and whatsapp did not constitute an illegal monopoly. Meta did not break the law when it bought its nascent rivals instagram and whatsapp, a federal judge said on tuesday, handing a major win to the $1.51 trillion company and dealing a blow to the government’s efforts to rein in the power of tech giants
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