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Meta, social media antitrust plaintiffs must reduce 'expert creep,' US judge says

By Mike Swift ( November 15, 2024, 01:00 GMT | Insight) -- Less than eight months before the scheduled start of an antitrust trial in San Francisco over whether Meta Platforms used deceptive privacy statements to illegally monopolize the market for social media services, a hearing today offered a preview of the potential trial, as both sides argued over expert witnesses who might testify to a federal jury next summer.“Project Ghostbusters,” an alleged wiretapping scheme by Facebook in 2016 to intercept Snapchat analytics to undermine Facebook’s upstart rival, should be part of a trial next year where the company now known as Meta Platforms is accused of illegally monopolizing the social media market, lawyers told a federal judge in San Francisco today....

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