Lawsuits pile up as U.S. tackles Big Tech’s market dominance

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and a big coalition of U.S. states sued Facebook Inc on Wednesday, saying that it broke antitrust law and should potentially be broken up. Facebook is the second big tech company to face a major legal antitrust challenge this fall.

The first out of the gate was the Justice Department complaint against Alphabet’s Google, which was filed in October. Previous to that, it had been known for more than a year that Google, Facebook, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc faced an array of antitrust probes on both the federal and state levels.

Following are other lawsuits and inquiries in the United States regarding Big Tech: