{"id":25218,"date":"2025-04-02T21:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25218"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:28:06","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-lobbies-trump-to-settle-antitrust-suit-against-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25218","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Settle Antitrust Suit Against Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Meta chief, who was at the White House on Wednesday, has discussed the case with the president and his aides. A trial is set to start in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has lobbied President Trump and his aides to resolve a federal antitrust lawsuit against his company that is set to go to trial on April 14, three people with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg has made several trips to the White House and Mar-a-Lago to discuss the matter, along with other issues, said two of the people, who were not authorized to reveal private conversations. Most recently, he visited the White House on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

The Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in 2020, during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, accusing the company of stifling competition by buying young start-ups such as Instagram and WhatsApp and preventing them from becoming fully fledged businesses. Meta could resolve the lawsuit with a settlement. It is unclear whether Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s efforts have led the Trump administration to consider settling.<\/p>\n

Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, which also owns Facebook, said the company \u201cregularly meets with policymakers to discuss issues impacting competitiveness, national security and economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The White House did not immediately have a comment, and the F.T.C. declined to comment. Details of the meetings were reported<\/a> earlier by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

In its lawsuit, the F.T.C. claimed that Meta had violated antitrust law by acquiring young rivals and depriving consumers of alternative social media platforms. The F.T.C. argued that Meta\u2019s 2012 purchase of the photo-sharing site Instagram for $1 billion and its 2014 deal for the messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion should not have been approved.<\/p>\n

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The Meta chief, who was at the White House on Wednesday, has discussed the case with the president and his aides. A trial is set to start in less than two weeks.Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has lobbied President Trump and his aides to resolve a federal antitrust lawsuit against his company that is set to go to trial on April 14, three people with knowledge of the matter said.Mr. Zuckerberg has made several trips to the White House and Mar-a-Lago to discuss the matter, along with other issues, said two of the people, who were not authorized to reveal private conversations. Most recently, he visited the White House on Wednesday morning.The Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in 2020, during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, accusing the company of stifling competition by buying young start-ups such as Instagram and WhatsApp and preventing them from becoming fully fledged businesses. Meta could resolve the lawsuit with a settlement. It is unclear whether Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s efforts have led the Trump administration to consider settling.Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, which also owns Facebook, said the company \u201cregularly meets with policymakers to discuss issues impacting competitiveness, national security and economic growth.\u201dThe White House did not immediately have a comment, and the F.T.C. declined to comment. Details of the meetings were reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.In its lawsuit, the F.T.C. claimed that Meta had violated antitrust law by acquiring young rivals and depriving consumers of alternative social media platforms. The F.T.C. argued that Meta\u2019s 2012 purchase of the photo-sharing site Instagram for $1 billion and its 2014 deal for the messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion should not have been approved.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25220,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}