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US FTC's Facebook complaint gets green light from judge on second try

Facebook won’t escape a landmark antitrust lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission for a second time, the federal judge in the case ruled today, denying the company’s motion to dismiss.
In addition to allowing the case to move forward, US District Judge James Boasberg gave the all clear to

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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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