The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed an amended complaint against Facebook in a reboot of an earlier lawsuit charging the world’s largest social media platform of using anti-competitive tactics “that helped cement its monopoly.”The amended complaint was filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia. That court tossed out the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit in June, finding the government failed to establish the tech platform had a monopoly on social media networks.
At the time, Judge James E. Boasberg left open the possibility the government could revive the case by amending its complaint, which sought to break up Facebook citing its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.The amended complaint now includes additional data
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