Meta’s Chief Legal Officer, Jennifer Newstead, expressed strong criticism of the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against the tech giant in a company blog post. The lawsuit asserts that Meta holds an unjust dominance over the social media space, a claim Newstead contests.
According to Newstead, the FTC is misrepresenting the landscape of social media by laying allegations against business operations that gained approval from the agency themselves years ago. “The FTC’s message in this case is clear: no deal is ever truly final, and businesses can be punished for innovating to give people greater value and choice,” she wrote.
Meta’s standpoint in this lawsuit is that the governing body is incorrectly defining the scope of the social media market. The company insists that the multitude of the features facilitated by its applications are widely accessible across the internet, thereby contradicting the FTC’s portrayal of a monopolistic scenario.
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