Recorded Webinar—The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail

Webinar

TECH IN THE COURTS:
A WLF-TechFreedom Series

Panelists:
Corbin K. Barthold, TechFreedom
Geoffrey A. Manne, International Center for Law & Economics

Description:
The FTC wants to break apart Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. But can it show that, in an evolving social-media landscape, Meta wields market power? Can it even define a coherent market? In this crossover event with the Tech Policy Podcast, two experts analyze the case and discuss its future.

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Speakers' Biographies

Corbin K. Barthold

Corbin is Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation at TechFreedom. He writes on tech legal, regulatory, and social issues for a wide range of outlets, including City Journal, The Bulwark, Reason, Lawfare, Techdirt, and The Daily Beast. He also hosts the Tech Policy Podcast, where he interviews some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, and academics. Corbin previously served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Washington Legal Foundation and as a partner at Browne George Ross LLP (now Ellis George LLP), where he engaged in complex litigation.

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Geoffrey A. Manne

Geoff is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics and a visiting professor of law at IE University, Madrid. Prior to founding ICLE in 2009, Geoff was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School and worked in Microsoft's legal department. He also previously practice appellate and antitrust law at Latham & Watkins LLP and served as a law clerk to Judge Morris S. Arnold on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.