Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has refused to commit to resisting President Donald Trump if he ordered the agency to drop its antitrust suit against Meta, saying he would “obey lawful orders” and calling the scenario “a hypothetical.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is aggressively lobbying the Trump administration to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the company before it goes to trial later this month,

Meta and the US Federal Trade Commission are set to face off in federal court this month, in the first big test of whether the new Donald Trump-appointed antitrust regulator will continue to crack down on Big Tech.