Snap Rebuffs Meta Document Request in FTC's D.C. Lawsuit

Meta’s request that Snap produce certain documents in the FTC’s lawsuit is an “enormous” burden that would require the disclosure of competitively sensitive documents with marginal relevance in the case, Snap said in a filing Thursday in 1:20-cv-03590 before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Some of Meta’s demands are massively overbroad and designed to sweep in plainly irrelevant, yet highly sensitive, material,” Snap said of Meta’s request for 46 numbered requests with 150 sub-portions. Snap asked the court to require the production of highly sensitive documents with an “outside counsel eyes’ only” designation and order Meta to pay Snap’s compliance costs. The documents are necessary for Meta to show the “significant” competition from Snap, Meta said in its own filing, accusing Snap of “stonewalling and delaying.” Meta criticized Snap’s first attempt to block all document production before offering a “take-it-or-leave-it” offer to produce a handful of documents with numerous, inappropriate conditions. Meta asked the court to order Snap to produce “highly relevant” documents.