Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for January 12th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today the FTC gets a second shot at Meta after a judge okayed their lawsuit edits.

Samsung ghosts on its own event, the state of the mobile app economy,

is cloning Wirtle to release an app okay or not and the new app at the top of the

App Store that definitely comes from the why didn't I think of that file here's what

you missed today in the world of tech. A federal judge ruled that the FTC's amended lawsuit, alleging

Meta has a monopoly can move forward after a ruling last year throughout the FTC's complaint over a lack of evidence.

So maybe bullet not dodged here? I guess it depends on if you're the FTC or your meta.

Quoting the Washington Post.

In a colorful order, U.S. District Judge James E. Boseburg

wrote that an amended complaint the agency filed in August offered quote

more robust and detailed evidence to suggest

Facebook has an alleged monopoly. In the filing the FTC argued that

Facebook is in a class of its own and should not be compared to other social apps such as

Tik-Tok. Second time lucky, Boseburg wrote in the opening of the complaint

noting that the Commission's first suit quote stumbled out of the starting blocks

end quote, first filed under a

under a Republican-led FTC in 2020. The Facebook antitrust suit is

widely viewed as a bellwether of Washington's ability to rain in Silicon Valley after years of a hands-off approach to tech regulation.

While the judge's decision acknowledges the agency has overcome some of the shortcomings of the initial suit,

Boseburg signaled it may be challenging

for the FTC to ultimately prove Facebook as a monopoly. It's quote

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