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The New York Times29d
Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
To make their case, they brought in a key witness: Kevin Systrom, a founder of Instagram. Under questioning from the government, Mr. Systrom, who left Meta in 2018, described how Mr. Zuckerberg ...
Meta’s antitrust defense wraps with one big claim: WhatsApp and Instagram couldn’t be better
For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta’s control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the ...
Did WhatsApp really need Meta?
In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...
New York Post29d
Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
Earlier in the trial, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said he felt that CEO Mark Zuckerberg treated the app’s success as a “threat” to Facebook after he bought it for $1 billion in 2012.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta seeks mid-trial dismissal of FTC antitrust battle
Meta is battling a high-stakes antitrust case brought by the FTC, with the trial nearing a critical juncture. Meta has requested a federal judge to di ...
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while dismissing "smoking gun" emails from Mark Zuckerberg discussing buying ...
The Western Journal on MSN16d
Zuckerberg, Grooming, and IG: Explosive Docs Surface in Court, Expose Damning Emails on Sick Grooming Situation
Mark Zuckerberg knew that Instagram's algorithms promoted and connected a vast network of predatory child groomers, but he ignored the problem, according to the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust ...
Engadget28d
Meta is trying to get its antitrust case thrown out in the middle of the trial
former COO Sheryl Sandberg and Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom. Their testimony has revealed new details about the inner workings of the social media company and its tactics to stay ahead of ...
The Information16d
Meta’s Antitrust Trial Ends
After six weeks of testimony, the trial for the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta Platforms concluded on Tuesday. Both sides can now file additional briefs in the case this ...
Meta’s fate in FTC antitrust trial in limbo as judge weighs possible breakup
Meta’s fate is up in the air after Mark Zuckerberg’s dirty laundry was aired in a landmark antitrust trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission – though some experts warn that the social media ...
TechRepublic16d
Meta Accuses FTC Expert of Bias on Final Trial Day: ‘You Helped Get It Started’
He argued that Meta gave Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom “everything he wanted” in terms of staffing a growth team. Still, according to The Verge, Systrom was not receptive to their ...