FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. META PLATFORMS, INC.
Case Number:
1:20-cv-03590
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Firms
- Arnold & Porter
- Axinn Veltrop
- Clifford Chance
- Cravath Swaine
- Davis Polk
- Freshfields
- Kellogg Hansen
- Milbank LLP
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Perkins Coie
- Ropes & Gray
- Skadden Arps
- Vinson & Elkins
- WilmerHale
- Wilson Sonsini
Companies
- Alphabet Inc.
- LinkedIn Corp.
- Match Group LLC
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- Oracle Corp.
- Pinterest Inc.
- Sequoia Capital Operations LLC
- Snap Inc.
- TikTok Inc.
- Twitter Inc.
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August 18, 2022
Update: Meta Withdraws Bid for Overseas Rivals' Docs In FTC Case
Just a day after making its request, Meta on Thursday summarily withdrew its bid for more help seeking information from the overseas parent companies of purported social media and messaging rivals as the Facebook successor battles Federal Trade Commission allegations of market dominance in D.C. federal court.
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August 16, 2022
TikTok Fights Facebook's Bid For Info In FTC Antitrust Probe
TikTok urged a D.C. federal judge Tuesday to let it off the hook from Facebook's subpoena demanding that highly confidential information related to the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation into Facebook be turned over to the company's in-house counsel.
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August 04, 2022
Meta Seeks Snap Records For Antitrust Defense At FTC
Meta Platforms Inc. asked a California federal court to force Snap Inc. to turn over records related to its view on competition that the Facebook parent says it needs to fend off antitrust claims levied by the Federal Trade Commission, according to filings unsealed Wednesday.
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August 01, 2022
Meta, FTC Must Work Together To Clarify Market, Judge Says
A D.C. federal judge on Monday ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission certain information on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger features that should be considered "personal social networking," while also ordering the FTC to clarify whether those features are indeed within its market definition.
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July 20, 2022
FTC Says It Didn't 'Clear' Meta Deals And Has No Docs To Give
The Federal Trade Commission has told a federal judge that Meta has no grounds for seeking nearly decade-old staff documents discussing the company's WhatsApp and Instagram purchases because they don't represent approval for those deals and contain no facts material to the commission's current effort to unwind those transactions.
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July 15, 2022
FTC Says Meta Has All The Market Definition Docs It Needs
The Federal Trade Commission told a D.C. federal judge it's already responded as much as it can to a Meta demand for further details on exactly how the agency defines the personal social networking market the Facebook parent allegedly monopolizes but that the company says is confusing and "artificial."
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July 06, 2022
Meta Says FTC Is 'Hiding' WhatsApp, Instagram Probe Docs
Meta has told a D.C. federal court that the Federal Trade Commission is refusing to turn over material from its reviews of Facebook's Instagram and WhatsApp purchases before they closed — the deals at the core of the FTC's antitrust case against the social media giant.
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June 16, 2022
Meta Says TikTok Parent Co. Has Key Docs To Fight FTC
Meta asked a D.C. federal judge Thursday to help it subpoena the Chinese parent companies of TikTok and WeChat, arguing their U.S. affiliates do not have all the information the Facebook parent needs to rebut Federal Trade Commission allegations of a largely uncontested monopoly.
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March 17, 2022
Social Media Cos. Want Info Shielded In FTC, Meta Dispute
Twitter, Snap Inc. and other social media and technology giants banded together Wednesday to ask the D.C. federal judge overseeing the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta Platforms to restrict Meta's ability to see their confidential business information.
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March 15, 2022
Meta Says FTC Guards Rivals' Docs Yet Claims It Lacks Rivals
Meta Platforms Inc. called out its government and private antitrust antagonists in separate court discovery filings Monday, criticizing the Federal Trade Commission for trying to guard sensitive material from the company's rivals even as the agency argues that the Facebook successor has "almost no competitors."