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  • The FTC argued that Meta had maintained illegal monopoly power in the narrow sector of the social media market by gobbling up nascent competitors, Instagram and WhatsApp, it feared could threaten its dominance. But throughout the trial, the FTC was dogged by questions about whether it could claim Meta still had that illegal monopoly in the face of a greatly changed social media landscape. Boasberg said the government had to prove current or imminent illegal monopolization, not just past dominance.

    Technically, fair on the judge’s part.

    I think this is more like Meta winning by delaying the case until it could win on a technicality.

    If these arguments had come up when the suit was originally filed, Meta would have lost the case, because TikTok hadn’t grown to be the competitor it is now.

    Putting on my tinfoil hat: Meta let TikTok grow in order to avoid being broken up for being a monopoly.


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    Here was the best tutorial I could find for it.

    You can create posts in Lemmy communities by tagging the community account
    (It should be a public post)
    If the community account is tagged with @, it will share the post and the post will also appear in the forum.
    For example, this is a post I created from Mastodon in feddit’s #Tischtennis forum: metalhead.club/@caos/112749905… … and this is how it is displayed in Lemmy: feddit.org/post/556495

    The only thing to note from Mastodon and Akkoma etc. is: The beginning of the post/the first paragraph becomes the title of the forum post, as Mastodon does not have a heading field. (see also: Instructions Creating a post from Mastodon)

    So it is best to start the post like this (see image 1):

    This is my headline (as descriptive a title as possible)
    @community@lemmy-instance
    This is the further text, link etc.
    if necessary a picture (only in the initial post a picture is transferred from Mastodon to Lemmy, between Lemmy and Friendica all images in answers are transferred in the meantime)