Judge James Boasberg has rejected the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, allowing the company to retain its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Boasberg is facing articles of impeachment filed this month over his role in the “Artic Frost” probe of Republicans.

The Washington Post reports that in a major legal victory for Meta, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the tech giant’s purchases of photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012 and messaging app WhatsApp in 2014 did not violate antitrust laws. The decision ends a five-year legal battle initiated by the FTC that sought to force Meta to divest the two popular apps.

The FTC had argued that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, held an illegal monopoly in the “personal social networking” market that included

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