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　　many US states led by New York filed on Monday to the appeals court that antitrust lawsuits against Meta Inc.'s Facebook should be resumed because the company is hurting competition and states The waiting time to file an appeal is not long.

　　New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, who leads the group of 46 states, Guam and the District of Columbia, said it would be wrong to treat states as a class action and impose restrictions on when they can sue. States not involved in the case include Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota.

　　She also said Facebook's practices hurt both the economy and the online marketplace.

　　The states asked a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reinstate a lawsuit filed in 2020, the same time the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the company.

　　Both the FTC and states have asked the court to order Facebook to sell Instagram, which it bought for $1 billion in 2012, and WhatsApp, which it bought for $19 billion in 2014. The current FTC fight with Facebook is ongoing.

　　Aaron Panner, a Facebook defender, said the two acquisitions were simultaneously hyped by the media, as was the company's policy on third-party apps. Facebook has been accused of punishing apps on its platform, for example, apps that connect with other social networks.

　　Because the state's lawsuit is more of a class action than enforcement, and the conduct described "has happened many years ago and didn't raise antitrust concerns at the time," the overdue period should apply, Panner said.

　　Judge Raymond Randolph asked which companies Facebook's competitors included, pointing to news reports that the company had struggled to retain younger users.

　　Pointing to TikTok, Twitter and other social media popular with users, Panner added: "Sometimes what's good for an antitrust defense is not good for business."