XChat will support encrypted and vanishing messages, as well as audio and visual calls without a phone number, Musk said.

After 30 years of shockingly few regulatory restraints, America’s tech giants were beginning to operate almost like wrecking ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of ...

Elon Musk has unveiled a new secure messaging service called XChat, aiming to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a ...

If the FTC wins, it would have to prove at a second trial that measures such as forcing Meta to sell Instagram or WhatsApp would restore competition. Losing Instagram in particular could prove ...

Former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on Wednesday testified in a landmark antitrust case that the company considered blocking advertisements from emerging competitors on Facebook.

“Messenger isn’t beating WhatsApp, Instagram was growing so ... and were instead as a sign of his constant paranoia that competitors would beat Facebook. At one point, he described seeing ...

Mr. Zuckerberg, who was called as the first witness in the trial, has previously denied that buying Instagram and WhatsApp hurt competition. Image Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive ...

The FTC argues that when Meta acquired Instagram, in 2012, and WhatsApp, two years later, that it was part of a strategy to eliminate competition and maintain monopoly power over the social media ...