Facebook on Wednesday requested a federal judge dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought against the company by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 state attorneys general, claiming they’ve failed to prove the company has harmed consumers or that it’s built a social media monopoly.
The tech giant, in filings made in U.S. District Court in Washington, argued the government and the states suing it “cannot assert that their citizens paid higher prices, that output was reduced, or that any objective measure of quality declined as a result of Facebook’s challenged actions.”
Wednesday’s filing marks the first real counterstrike from Facebook since it was sued by the FTC in December.