Government,
Corporate,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Dec. 21, 2020
The cases against Facebook
The recent antitrust cases against the social media giant signal new approach to antitrust enforcement
David W. Kesselman
Co-Managing Partner
Kesselman Brantly & Stockinger LLP
Phone: (310) 307-4555
Email: dkesselman@kbslaw.com
David is an adjunct professor of antitrust law at Loyola Law Schoo.
Amy T. Brantly
Co-Managing Partner
Kesselman, Brantly & Stockinger LLP
Phone: (310) 307-4557
Email: abrantly@kbslaw.com
Earlier this month, in a remarkable display of bipartisan consensus, the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 state attorneys general filed parallel federal antitrust lawsuits against Facebook alleging that the large tech company had become too powerful. In both cases, Facebook is alleged to have engaged in anticompetitive acts designed to unlawfully maintain its monopoly in the market for personal social networking services. For those of us who believe that anti...
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