The news follows reports that the the FTC has been investigating Facebook as part of an antitrust investigation, on the grounds that it's policies are anticompetitive.
The commission started its investigation after Facebook announced that it would unify the technical underpinnings of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
That would allow its 2.7 billion users to send private, encrypted messages from one app that could be received on another.
The FTC's primary concern is that Facebook's acquisition of rival apps like Instagram has reduced social networking competition. The commission believes that if Facebook tightly integrated those apps into its own infrastructure, it would become much more difficult to break up.
As of last year, Facebook owned around 66 percent of the global social media market, compared to 11 percent each for Pinterest and Twitter.
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