FILE PHOTO: Stickers bearing the Facebook logo are pictured at Facebook Inc’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will open an antitrust investigation of Facebook, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
It will mark the fourth investigation of the social media company which also faces probes by the Federal Trade Commission, a group of state attorneys general led by New York and the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Shri Navaratnam
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