The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Tuesday that it will appeal the ruling in its monopoly case against Meta. Legal and economic antitrust experts see no way the FTC can win on appeal, given the factual findings of the federal court in November.
While the actual appeal has not yet been filed, the FTC Bureau of Competition Director Daniel Guarnera said that "the Trump-Vance FTC will continue fighting its historic case against Meta to ensure that competition can thrive across the country to the benefit of all Americans and U.S. businesses." The decision to appeal, coupled with Guarnera's statement, is yet more evidence that President Donald Trump's FTC has embraced the big-is-bad mantra of its Democratic predecessor.
