The Trump administration’s landmark antitrust trial against Meta begins on Monday, as federal regulators accuse the social media giant of using its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to illegally suppress competition.
If the Federal Trade Commission, which brought the suit in 2020, gets it way, Meta could have to spin the popular apps into their own companies, the first major corporate break-up of the Big Tech era and one of the most aggressive anti-trust cases in decades.
