US prepares to challenge Meta’s social media dominance

Soon after Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, the social network skyrocketed in popularity. Roughly a decade later, the company experienced another round of explosive growth after buying its smaller rivals Instagram and WhatsApp, cementing its place in social media.

On Monday, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will begin considering a landmark monopoly case involving the company — now called Meta — that hinges on a novel legal question: Did it break the law to…