Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:

gizmodo.com/meta-learns-that-n…

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pluralistic.net/2025/11/20/if-…

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