The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of ...

The FTC has also asked Meta to respond to allegations that the company from late 2017 through mid-2019 misled parents about who their children can communicate with through the Messenger Kids app ...

The California jury found Meta guilty in a class action lawsuit filed by Erica Frasco against the social media company, Flo ...

Strengthened requirements throughout relating to privacy review, data inventory, access controls, etc. Meta strenuously denied the FTC’s approach, calling it “a political stunt” in a statement.

The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an existing 2020 privacy order by misleading parents about the control they have over Facebook Messenger, and ...

The settlement allows plaintiffs to avoid trying a very difficult case. Meta investors alleged that former and current board ...

The FTC declined to comment on the ruling. Last week, the agency issued an order giving Meta a deadline of Dec. 11 to respond to the FTC’s proposal to expand the settlement. Next steps ...

FTC v. Meta Is All About Politics, Not Antitrust Law COMMENTARY By Yael Ossowski April 16, 2025 ...

The FTC claims Meta shouldn't have been allowed to buy Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, and the agency is calling for those units to be sliced off from the ...

The FTC alleged in its complaint that the deal would reduce Meta’s incentive to develop its own competitor to Supernatural, or to add new features to Beat Saber, a Meta-owned VR app that the FTC ...

The FTC’s case uses a relatively novel strategy to argue that consumers have been harmed by what it considers to be Meta’s anticompetitive practices, rather than the strategy it typically used ...

Several years after Facebook-owner Meta acquired WhatsApp and Instagram, the Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust lawsuit that claimed that through these acquisitions, Meta had become a ...