The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

By Jody Godoy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Facebook parent Meta Platforms bought up nascent rivals Instagram and WhatsApp after its attempts to compete had failed, an attorney for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said at the beginning of a high-stakes trial in Washington on Monday,

Meta is back in court this week, in a throwback to the company's early days, when it was still called Facebook. This week CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in an antitrust case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission concerning the company's 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.