U.S. Revives Facebook Suit, Adding Details to Back Claim of a Monopoly

After a judge slammed the F.T.C.’s original lawsuit, regulators returned with a more detailed case accusing the platform of being a monopoly.

Congress Faces Renewed Pressure to ‘Modernize Our Antitrust Laws’

After a federal judge threw out state and federal competition cases against Facebook, calls grew for lawmakers to quickly change century-old monopoly laws.

Here are the antitrust arguments against Facebook and why a judge rejected them.

A federal judge said the Federal Trade Commission had not made its case that Facebook held a monopoly over social networking. And he said states had waited too long to sue.