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Technology is fast and the courts are slow: How TikTok helped Meta land an antitrust victory

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Shifts in the tech industry make it harder to win antitrust cases that can drag out for years, experts said.

Shifts in the tech industry make it harder to win antitrust cases that can drag out for years, experts said.

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David McCabe and Steve Lohr

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For years, Meta has been locked in a fierce rivalry with TikTok.

Meta, the owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, has cloned some of the features popularied by TikTok, which won over young people with an endless feed of short vertical videos.

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