{"id":78631,"date":"2021-06-29T02:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78631"},"modified":"2021-06-29T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:40:05","slug":"judge-dismisses-ftc-and-state-antitrust-complaints-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2021\/judge-dismisses-ftc-and-state-antitrust-complaints-against-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Shares of Facebook jump after a federal court on Monday <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.224921\/gov.uscourts.dcd.224921.73.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s antitrust complaint against <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, as well as a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.224923\/gov.uscourts.dcd.224923.137.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">parallel case<\/a> brought by 48 state attorneys general, dealing a major setback to the agency\u2019s complaint, which could have resulted in Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/09\/ftc-and-several-states-launch-antitrust-lawsuits-against-facebook.html\">divesting Instagram and WhatsApp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/28\/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Shares of Facebook jump after a federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s antitrust complaint against Facebook, as well as a parallel case brought by 48 state attorneys general, dealing a major setback to the agency\u2019s complaint, [&hellip;]<\/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-78631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78631","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=78631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78632,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78631\/revisions\/78632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}