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Instagram, Meta set for Australian antitrust trial in September 2026

By James Panichi ( August 22, 2025, 07:41 GMT | Insight) -- The commercial relationship between Instagram, along with its parent company Meta Platforms, and Australian startup Dialogue Consulting will be examined during a three-week trial, scheduled to kick off in September 2026 — six and a half years after the lawsuit was filed. In an at times tense hearing, Federal Court of Australia Judge Jonathan Beach announced the schedule, while bristling at Instagram’s request for an extended discovery deadline and rejecting Dialogue’s suggestion that it could only calculate its potential losses once the trial had played out.Instagram’s commercial relationship with Australian startup Dialogue Consulting will be examined during a three-week trial, scheduled to kick off in September 2026 — six and a half years after the lawsuit was filed....

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