Meta bristles at breadth of discovery in Australian antitrust lawsuit

By James Panichi ( May 19, 2025, 09:03 GMT | Insight) -- Meta has already spent half a million Australian dollars and over 1,200 hours responding to document requests made by Melbourne-based tech company Dialogue Consulting as part of an antitrust case, an Australian court heard today. In a Federal Court of Australia hearing, a lawyer for Meta criticized the breadth of Dialogue’s discovery requests relating to datasets allegedly held by the social-media giant. Meta also successfully opposed attempts to have it release documents used in an unrelated US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit.Meta has already spent half a million Australian dollars ($321,000) and over 1,200 hours responding to document requests made by Melbourne-based tech company Dialogue Consulting as part of an antitrust case, an Australian court heard today....

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Meta bristles at breadth of discovery in Australian antitrust lawsuit

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