Assessment of the impact of Google’s antitrust ruling on Meta Platforms
Though Google’s antitrust ruling will mostly benefit the likes of Microsoft and OpenAI, it emboldens regulators and courts to take on Big Tech. In particular, Meta Platforms is facing a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reopened legal suit over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
The ruling on Google’s monopoly of data also affects Meta Platforms in some way. For instance, a legal case wanting Meta not to give its Marketplace preferential rankings over alternatives could be launched just like what is under EU’s Digital Markets Act.