White House says it is encouraged by Facebook decision not to dismiss lawsuit

The White House is encouraged by Facebook's rejection of Facebook's request to dismiss antitrust lawsuit.

The White House said on Wednesday it was encouraged by a U.S. judge's decision not to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Facebook.

We are encouraged by the decision of the White House press secretary Jen Psaki. President Joe Biden has said that we need more competition in the tech industry. Facebook, now Meta Platforms, had asked Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C. federal court to dismiss the lawsuit in which the government asked the court to demand Facebook sell Instagram and WhatsApp.

The judge said the FTC had a plausible case that should be allowed to proceed. One of the biggest challenges that the government has brought to Big Tech in the past is that it represents one of the biggest challenges it has brought to Big Tech.

Meta said that it was confident the company would prevail in court, adding that the judge said the FTC could not press allegations that Facebook refused to allow interoperability permissions with competing apps as a way to maintain its dominance, saying that policies had been abandoned in 2018 and Facebook's most recent enforcement of the policy was even older.