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Comment: Meta-Within deal challenge from US FTC failed on evidence, not theory

By Michael Acton
  • 06 Feb 2023 23:21
  • 06 Feb 2023 23:21
Meta and Within won their federal court case against the US Federal Trade Commission, but the agency can claim a partial victory because its rarely-used legal theory and its narrow market definition passed court muster, offering proof-of-concept for similar cases in future.
What sunk the FTC’s case was the lack

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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