Jan. 23, 2026
The FTC's Meta challenge
The FTC is pushing ahead with its bid to break up Meta -- but legal experts say challenging acquisitions that closed more than a decade ago without opposition may simply be too little, too late.
The Trump administration is continuing its battle to break up Meta Platforms Inc., but legal experts are skeptical that an appellate court will reverse a district judge's ruling that the Federal Trade Commission failed to prove Meta's social media sites have monopoly power.
The reason? It may simply be too late to undo the merger of Facebook and Instagram that closed more than 13 years ago and was never challenged by antitrust regulators at the time. The company also added...
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