Meta Must Face Trial After Judge Pares Some FTC Claims
- Company wins dismissal of some allegations from dominance case
- Judge to schedule trial date at hearing later this month
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Meta Platforms Inc. will face a somewhat scaled-back antitrust trial over its alleged dominance of social networking after a federal judge threw out some allegations by the US Federal Trade Commission, but the heart of the case remains.
In a 92-page order on Wednesday, US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington said he was narrowing one of the FTC’s claims. He accepted Meta’s arguments that some of its restrictions on its Facebook platform had legitimate business justifications.