FTC Offers Market Metrics In Amended Complaint Against Facebook

摘要

In an action approved by a 3-2 vote of the commissioners, the Federal Trade Commission has filed an amended complaint against Facebook, Inc., in its ongoing antitrust action against the social media platform before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.The amended complaint in Federal Trade Commission v. Facebook,Inc. (civil action 20-3590) alleges that Facebook maintained its dominance in the personal social networking (PSN) market as that market began shifting to a mobile environment by acquiring rivals and potential rivals and "by implementing and enforcing a series of anticompetitive conditional dealing policies that pulled the rug out from under firms perceived as competitive threats." The complaint cites conditions and restrictions imposed on app developers to prevent them from competing with Facebook. Through these practices, the company "prevented differentiated and innovative firms from gaining scale, thus enabling Facebook to maintain its dominance," it adds.