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My Company Competed Against Facebook. Here's What Happened | Opinion
In its landmark antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that Meta illegally maintains a monopoly in ...
At Meta’s Landmark Trial, a Stroll Through a Graveyard of Dead Apps
In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path ...
Instagram Co-Founder Says Mark Zuckerberg Saw App’s Growth as ‘Threat’
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that his fledgling photo-sharing app could have succeeded without being acquired ...
Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom skewers Mark Zuckerberg, saying Meta starved his business after buying it for $1 billion over a decade ago
Systrom testified that Instagram had the potential to thrive independently and did not require Meta’s infrastructure or ...
Instagram co-founder: Zuckerberg saw us as a ‘threat’ to Facebook
When Instagram was acquired for $1 billion in 2012, co-founder Kevin Systrom believed that joining Facebook would help ...
Meta’s US Antitrust Trial: What You’ve Missed So Far
The FTC wants Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp to create a more level playing field in the social app market.
Facebook considered ad-free subscriptions after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg ...
Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial
The FTC quickly moved to undermine Sandberg’s credibility. FTC lawyer Susan Musser started off by trying to establish that people primarily use the company’s services to stay connected with friends ...
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Carole Cadwalladr unveils the dark side of social media information gathering at Longford festival
Carole is a Pulitzer nominated investigative journalist who broke the story of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's illegal ...
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 ...
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg initially offered FTC a mere $450M in failed bid to settle antitrust case: report
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reportedly extended a paltry offer of just $450 million to settle the landmark FTC antitrust case that ...