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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Dec. 30, 2025

Antitrust efforts against Meta and Google face setbacks amid technological shifts

Government attempts to break up large Silicon Valley tech giants Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.-owned Google LLC hit significant hurdles this year, as one lawsuit was defeated and a request for a major divestiture was blocked in another.

Antitrust efforts against Meta and Google face setbacks amid technological shifts
David W. Kesselman of Kesselman Brantly Stockinger LLP

Efforts to break up large Silicon Valley technology companies Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC, ran into major hurdles this year, leading to the defeat of a government lawsuit and blocking a request for a major divestiture in another.

What's changed is that technological developments, driven in different ways by artificial intelligence, have created new competitors for Alphabet Inc.-owned Google's still-dominant search engine and Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagra...

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