Facebook owner Meta can keep the WhatsApp mobile messaging app and the Instagram social media site in a federal trial brought by the FTC.

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Meta has won its case against the Federal Trade Commission, seven months after the trial began.

During his April testimony, Zuckerberg pushed back against the FTC’s contention that Facebook bought Instagram to neutralize a threat.

A US judge ruled that the social media landscape had 'changed markedly' since the lawsuit was brought five years ago.

The Federal Trade Commission sued the social media company in 2020, accusing it of maintaining a monopoly, years after it purchased competitors Instagram and WhatsApp.

The decision allows Instagram's parent company to avoid the prospect of the company breaking up

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling Tuesday after the historic antitrust trial wrapped up in late May.

Challenge to Meta could have forced it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, but judge ruled company did not hold social networking monopoly

Facebook owner Meta can keep the WhatsApp mobile messaging app and the Instagram social media site in a federal trial brought by the FTC.