USA: The US District Court of Columbia rejects social network’s request to extinguish FTC lawsuit (Facebook)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Bis repetita? Nullo modo would be the answer... In a decision dated January 11, the District Court of Columbia ruled this time that the complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission was very well founded. Also, the U.S. court decided to reject the arguments of Facebook, which asked that the proceedings against it be extinguished. So, in the next few months, there will be an antitrust trial against Facebook, recently renamed Meta! It must be said that the first round was won by the social network. In a decision dated June 28, 2021 (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, FTC v. Facebook, 2021 WL 2643627, June 28, 2021), the same court dismissed