Meta Platforms fires back in long-running antitrust dispute with Australian tech start-up
By Ryan Cropp ( July 11, 2024, 05:30 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms has launched a stinging counterattack in its long running antitrust dispute with Australia’s Dialogue Consulting, accusing the Melbourne-based social-media startup of collecting user credentials en masse in order to make thousands of unauthorized logins to the Instagram platform. In a cross claim filed in the Federal Court of Australia and seen by MLex, Meta said Dialogue’s existing antitrust case against Instagram could not have existed without the Australian company's repeated breaches of Meta’s terms of service. Dialogue, the operator of social-media scheduling service Sked Social, is currently suing Meta for alleged abuses of its market power stemming from the tech giant’s decision to boot Sked off its platforms in 2019.Meta Platforms has launched a stinging counterattack in its long-running antitrust dispute with Australia’s Dialogue Consulting, accusing the Melbourne-based social-media startup of collecting user credentials en masse in order to make thousands of unauthorized logins to the Instagram platform....
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