Organisation: Meta

Featured in Class actions hub 2022/2023

The CAT has emphasised that a roadmap for resolving difficult questions in novel cases needs to be set out at the certification stage. It is encouraging to potential defendants that the CAT is grappling with the challenges faced by data privacy cases.

17 March 2023

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has ended its investigation into Meta over an online advertising agreement with Google, although it will continue to probe the latter’s involvement in the same pact three months after the EU dropped the case entirely.

10 March 2023

Australia’s competition watchdog has launched another market study into digital platforms, as its latest probe examines the “expanding ecosystems” of Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

08 March 2023

The inherent unpredictability of merger control assessments in digital markets means agencies will sometimes get cases wrong, but enforcers have to be comfortable working in that framework, the head of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has said.

02 March 2023

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has refused to certify a proposed £2.2 billion class action against Meta but allowed the claimant six months to amend what it said “went very badly wrong” in her proposed analysis.

20 February 2023

Liza Lovdahl Gormsen is the proposed class representative in a blockbuster claim against Meta, which seeks £2.3 billion on behalf of 45 million UK consumers that allege they lost out because of its unlawful exploitation of their personal data. Following a recent certification hearing before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, she spoke to GCR about criticism of the claim and the future of data and sustainability-related class actions.

14 February 2023

The Federal Trade Commission’s failure to block Meta Platforms/Within Unlimited underlines the legal challenges of proving harm to potential competition, but possibly moves the needle in its favour for future cases, experts have said.

07 February 2023

The Federal Trade Commission failed to show that Meta Platforms was likely to enter the virtual reality fitness realm absent its acquisition of Within Unlimited, a California federal judge has ruled.

06 February 2023

A class representative suing Meta and Google in Australia for allegedly conspiring to ban all crypto-related advertising has offered commitments to resolve a perceived conflict of interest stemming from his dual roles as class representative and head of the litigation funder.

03 February 2023

Meta Platforms cannot bar Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan from participating in decisions related to its proposed acquisition of Within Unlimited, the agency’s two Democrats have ruled – with commissioner Christine Wilson issuing a fiery dissent.

03 February 2023