UPDATE 1-Facebook parent seeks dismissal of U.S. challenge to Within Unlimited deal - Yahoo Finance

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By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Facebook genitor Meta Platforms Inc connected Thursday asked a U.S. justice to disregard a suit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that argues that the company's projected woody to bargain world contented shaper Within Unlimited should beryllium blocked.

"The FTC's effort to hole its ill-conceived ailment inactive ignores the facts and the instrumentality and relies connected axenic speculation of a hypothetical aboriginal state," a Meta spokesperson said Thursday.

The FTC, which did not instantly comment, had filed a suit successful July saying that Meta's acquisition of Within would "tend to make a monopoly" successful the marketplace for virtual reality-dedicated fittingness apps. The FTC, which filed an amended ailment earlier this month, is focused connected the virtual world dedicated workout app marketplace and Within's Supernatural, which is disposable lone connected Meta's VR devices.

It argues that the projected woody would "substantially lessen contention oregon thin to make a monopoly" successful that market.

Meta's question said "the FTC’s conclusory, speculative, and contradictory allegations bash not plausibly plead immoderate facts to found that immoderate expected marketplace for VR Deliberate Fitness apps is 'oligopolistic' arsenic to either behaviour oregon structure." (Reporting by David Shepardson and Diane Bartz; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Aurora Ellis)