{"id":1997,"date":"2021-06-28T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/lawsuits-seeking-breakup-of-facebook-dismissed-in-setback-for-us-regulators\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:45:39","slug":"lawsuits-seeking-breakup-of-facebook-dismissed-in-setback-for-us-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/lawsuits-seeking-breakup-of-facebook-dismissed-in-setback-for-us-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits seeking breakup of Facebook dismissed in setback for US regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge ruled suits by FTC and state attorneys general didn\u2019t provide enough evidence to prove Facebook was a monopoly<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Monday dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of state attorneys general, dealing a significant blow to attempts by regulators to rein in tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>The US district judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the lawsuits were \u201clegally insufficient\u201d and didn\u2019t provide enough evidence to prove that Facebook was a monopoly. The ruling dismisses the complaint but not the case, meaning the FTC could refile another complaint.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/28\/facebook-antitrust-lawsuits-dismissed-ftc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/34e997d81d3b9bda493288c804dfa8dab65c8cd6\/0_39_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=89e7bfb3e12cb9851e4de1ceb5ec9650\" title=\"Lawsuits seeking breakup of Facebook dismissed in setback for US regulators\" \/>Federal judge ruled suits by FTC and state attorneys general didn\u2019t provide enough evidence to prove Facebook was a monopoly<br \/>\nA federal judge on Monday dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of state attorneys general, dealing a significant blow to attempts by regulators to rein in tech giants.<br \/>\nThe US district judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the lawsuits were \u201clegally insufficient\u201d and didn\u2019t provide enough evidence to prove that Facebook was a monopoly. The ruling dismisses the complaint but not the case, meaning the FTC could refile another complaint. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge ruled suits by FTC and state attorneys general didn\u2019t provide enough evidence to prove Facebook was a monopoly A federal judge on Monday dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of state attorneys general, dealing a significant blow to attempts by regulators to rein in tech &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/lawsuits-seeking-breakup-of-facebook-dismissed-in-setback-for-us-regulators\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawsuits seeking breakup of Facebook dismissed in setback for US regulators<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}