(Bloomberg) -The Federal Trade Commission has its case for breaking up Meta platforms Inc. as an illegal monopoly wrapped on social media, with the company now setting out its defense in the ongoing antitrust hearing. Meta takes the next few weeks to make his case in front of US district judge James Boasberg in Washington. The company also said on Thursday that the government did not prove its case, and it would file a motion asking him to rule in his favor. The trial has so far has a high-profile testimony of witnesses, including Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The FTC, which wants Meta Instagram and WhatsApp to turn off, claims that the company has a monopoly in the market for ‘Personal Social Network Services’, which consists of products focusing on sharing things online with friends and family. The agency argues that the monopoly has enabled Meta to humiliate the quality of its products, including by weaker privacy protection and an increased amount of advertising. Meta argues that the FTC’s market definition is too narrow and that competitors like BiteDance Ltd. Tiktok, Google’s YouTube and Apple Inc. Excluding the iMessage. The FTC does not dispute that Meta competes with the companies in markets such as messages and video, but it claims that the company’s only real competitor, Snap Inc. Snapchat, in the core market to communicate with friends and family. Meta -Tellers that social media has changed over the past few years and that people use a variety of digital resources to communicate, including messages and videos. And Meta argued during the first five weeks of the hearing that the government could not prove the users of any damage. The company begins its defense by calling SNAP employees, including chief information officer Saral Jain, whose testimony is largely sealed. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP
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