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Why Meta frames its clash with Australian startup as a peripheral squabble

By James Panichi ( February 24, 2025, 20:00 GMT | Comment) -- A routine hearing in the marathon Meta-Dialogue antitrust case in Australia took an unusual turn last week, when the two sides clashed about whether the lawsuit should be seen as a case of “relatively modest importance.” It wasn’t just trash-talking among lawyers. Meta is desperate to curtail the Australian startup's attempts to obtain documents relating to a 2020 privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, while Dialogue says the case is significant enough to warrant a deep discovery dive.To the uninitiated, recent exchanges between lawyers representing tech giant Meta Platforms and Australian tech startup Dialogue Consulting during what should have been a routine procedural hearing could have been mistaken for pre-game trash-talking....

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