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FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition

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The Federal Trade Commission has refiled its lawsuit against Facebook and has included additional data that it hopes will bolster its case.

The refiling is a response to the FTC’s initial case, which was thrown out in June by US District Judge James Boasberg, who did not think the agency provided sufficient data or a sharp enough definition of Facebook’s market in its first filing. Judge Boasberg also dismissed a similar lawsuit against Facebook brought by 40 states on similar grounds.

“No other personal social networking provider in the United States remotely approaches Facebook’s scale, ” the FTC said in its lawsuit.

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