TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 21, 2025

Meta Platforms Inc. won a court ruling that its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp do not violate U.S. antitrust law, Bloomberg Law reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington D.C. ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) failed to prove the deals allowed Meta to illegally monopolize the social networking market. “Whether or not Meta enjoyed monopoly power in the past, though, the agency must show that it continues to hold such power now. The court’s verdict today determines that the FTC has not done so,” Boasberg wrote. The decision is a setback for the FTC, which sued Meta for antitrust violations in 2020 during the first Trump administration.