The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail

Originally broadcast on September 4, 2024

Speakers: Corbin K. Barthold, TechFreedom and Geoffrey A. Manne, International Center for Law and Economics

About the program: This is the second program in a our “Tech in the Courts” series co-sponsored by WLF and TechFreedom.

The FTC wants to break apart Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. But can it show that, in an evolving social-media landscape, Meta wields market power? Can it even define a coherent market? In this crossover event with the Tech Policy Podcast, two experts analyze the case and discuss its future.

About WLF: Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) is the nation’s premier public-interest law firm and policy center. Our mission is to preserve and defend America’s free-enterprise system by litigating, educating, and advocating for free-market principles, a limited and accountable government, individual and business civil liberties, and the rule of law. For more information, please visit https://www.wlf.org/.

About TechFreedom: TechFreedom is a non-profit, non-partisan technology think tank launched in 2011. The organization seeks to advance public policy that makes experimentation, entrepreneurship and investment possible, and thus unleashes the ultimate resource: human ingenuity. For more information please visit https://techfreedom.org/about/.