{"id":76538,"date":"2020-12-10T00:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76538"},"modified":"2020-12-10T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:35:11","slug":"ftc-and-states-sue-facebook-could-force-it-to-divest-instagram-and-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2020\/ftc-and-states-sue-facebook-could-force-it-to-divest-instagram-and-whatsapp.html","title":{"rendered":"FTC and states sue Facebook, could force it to divest Instagram and WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/cases\/1910134fbcomplaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> and a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/facebook_complaint_12.9.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">coalition of attorneys general<\/a> from 48 states and territories filed two separate antitrust lawsuits against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=FB\">Facebook<\/a> on Wednesday. The suits target two of Facebook\u2019s major acquisitions: Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/09\/ftc-and-several-states-launch-antitrust-lawsuits-against-facebook.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of attorneys general from 48 states and territories filed two separate antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday. The suits target two of Facebook\u2019s major acquisitions: Instagram and WhatsApp. To read this article:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76539,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76538\/revisions\/76539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}