9 Binary code is seen through a 3-D printed Facebook logo in this illustration. US federal and state antitrust officers filed suit against the social media giant, claiming it abused its dominant position. Dueling antitrust lawsuits against Facebook Inc. highlighted the social-media giant's acquisitions of photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp. But the allegations of anticompetitive practices included another through-line with potentially far-reaching implications for enterprise technology companies: data sharing. The suits filed Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission and 46 state attorneys general argue Facebook leveraged its trove of user information both to entice third-party developers onto the platform and to bend them toward its will.