The Federal Trade Commission wrapped up its case Thursday for breaking up Meta Platforms Inc. as an illegal social-media monopoly, with the company now set to lay out its defense in the ongoing antitrust trial.

Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while dismissing "smoking gun" emails from Mark Zuckerberg discussing buying Instagram to bury it as "legally irrelevant."

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, asked a federal judge to toss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against it. Meta claimed that the FTC failed to prove during the trial that the company violated antitrust laws and that acquiring both Instagram and WhatsApp was anticompetitive.