Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, at President Trump’s inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. Meta faces an antitrust trial that begins Monday. Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images North America
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The Federal Trade Commission’s blockbuster antitrust case against Meta kicks off on Monday in a courtroom in Washington, DC. It’s the culmination of a nearly six-year investigation into whether the social media giant broke competition laws in acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp.
At stake is the future Meta’s enormous advertising business and the prospect of having to spin off its hugely popular services into separate