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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Apr. 30, 2025

Meta seeks to dismiss antitrust suit by users, advertisers

Meta Platforms asks San Francisco judge to exclude plaintiffs' damages expert, grant summary judgment in massive antitrust class action.

Meta seeks to dismiss antitrust suit by users, advertisers
Sonal N. Mehta of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Meta Platforms Inc. asked a San Francisco judge to exclude the plaintiffs' damages expert and grant summary judgment in a putative antitrust class action by "hundreds of millions" of Meta users and advertisers who say their data was used anticompetitively.

The plaintiffs accuse Meta of illegally acquiring and maintaining a monopoly in the market for personal social network services. They claim Meta created a monopoly by repeatedly misrepresenting its data collection ...

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