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Spinning off Instagram, the decline of ‘friending’ and other takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg at the FTC monopoly trial
CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Meta’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp on the stand this week during the start of trial ...
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand
FTC chair Andrew Ferguson and Meta’s new global policy chief, Joel Kaplan, were seated inside the courtroom yesterday but ...
At Meta Trial, Sheryl Sandberg Defends Tactics With Rivals
The chief executive testified for a third day in a landmark antitrust trial accusing his company of quashing competition ...
Zuckerberg underscores TikTok competition as Meta fights monopoly allegations
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized Wednesday that his social media company faces stiff competition from TikTok, as Meta ...
Zuckerberg stresses TikTok competition at Meta trial
Technology Technology   The Big Story Zuckerberg stresses TikTok competition at Meta trial Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent his ...
End of Elon Musk’s X and Zuckerberg's Instagram? Open AI's Sam Altman is secretly developing a unique social media network
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is reportedly developing a social media platform to rival X and Instagram. The platform may ...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in antitrust case
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is emphasizing that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he liked the companies — not to cut ...
What smart people are saying about Meta's argument that it's not a social media monopoly
Top antitrust experts think the FTC will have a tough time winning the trial — but there's still a real chance Meta will sell ...
When Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2018 that Instagram and Facebook ‘may be broken up in the next five to 10 years’
Emails presented during the FTC's antitrust trial reveal Mark Zuckerberg foresaw a potential Instagram breakup as early as ...
Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas in Meta’s history
These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire.
Meta's Zuckerberg eyed Instagram spinoff amid antitrust scrutiny, document shows
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off popular photo-sharing app Instagram in 2018 over concerns about the growing ...
Mark Zuckerberg defends strategy behind Instagram, WhatsApp deals
Mark Zuckerberg floated the possibility of spinning off Instagram from his social media empire amid rising regulatory scrutiny of the technology sector and an increasing concern that the photo sharing ...