Meta won a landmark antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday after a federal judge ruled it has not monopolized the social media market at the center of the case.

US District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote that Meta had not unfairly cornered a market on “personal social networking,” a category that includes a narrow subset of social media apps including Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. The decision, which can be appealed by the FTC, means Meta will not immediately face demands to undo acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Boasberg noted that he’d warned the FTC that it faced an “uphill battle” in defining the market at issue and proving Meta held an illegal monopoly in it. Ultimately, he ruled, it failed to prove that Meta didn’t face substantial competition fr

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