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Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

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431 points c420 | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 13:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.872s | source
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paxys ◴[14 Apr 25 19:40 UTC] No.43685386[source]▶
I don't understand the FTC's strategy here. Their entire case hinges on the fact that the judge will accept that Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and MeWe (?) are direct competitors of Facebook in the "personal social networking" space while TikTok, YouTube, X, iMessage and all the rest aren't. Unsurprisingly that is what Meta's legal team is spending all of its efforts debating. I really can't see the judge allowing such a cherry-picked definition of what Facebook's market is.
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1. scialex ◴[14 Apr 25 20:20 UTC] No.43685882[source]▶
I mean it's not much more unreasonable then the argument that iphones and android phones don't compete but courts bought that.
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2. granzymes ◴[14 Apr 25 22:20 UTC] No.43686921[source]▶
A court didn’t buy that: the district court and 9th Circuit both held that iOS and Android compete in the Epic v. Apple case.

A jury however found that the relevant market in the Epic v. Google case was just Android. Google is understandably appealing that to the 9th Circuit.