Meta Antitrust Case Dismissal Upheld by Appeals Court
- 48 states, territories sued over Instagram, WhatsApp deals
- Appeals court upholds finding that states waited too long
The Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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New York and other state attorneys general waited too long to sue Meta Platforms Inc. over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, a federal appeals court ruled, upholding the dismissal of their antitrust suit.
“The states were on notice of Facebook’s two major acquisitions. Both were publicized,” a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit wrote Thursday. We “agree with the district court that the States unduly delayed in bringing suit.”