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Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and ...
Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, ...
Meta ‘nudged’ prominent Big Tech critic in plea for help ahead of landmark FTC antitrust trial: sources
Meta “nudged” a prominent Big Tech critic to help Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media giant curry favor with powerful Republicans ...
Meta's 'Hail Mary' Before Landmark Antitrust Trial Began: Here's Who The Company Called
Meta Platforms wanted to avoid its antitrust trial and reached out to a company that had written negative stories on the ...
Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial
Meta’s lead attorney called a once-prominent tech journalist a “failed blogger.” Long-simmering tension between Silicon ...
US FTC chair seeks to trim agency by around 10%
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking to trim its headcount by around 10%, its chairman told Congress on Thursday, ...
The Morning After: What we learned from the FTC v. Meta antitrust trial (so far)
Years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in a bid to halt acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that ...
Mark Zuckerberg Must Testify in Meta Pixel Health Data Lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have to testify in a suit challenging the company’s collection of personal ...
What we learned from Instagram boss Adam Mosseri's testimony at the Meta antitrust trial
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri testified Thursday in the Meta antitrust trial in DC federal court.
Meta defends Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions as FTC calls final witnesses: Key highlights
The antitrust watchdog has accused Meta of acquiring potential rival platforms Instagram and WhatsApp in order to establish ...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri knew 40% of platform’s activity was ‘Fake,’ Meta’s US FTC trial reveals
During Meta's FTC trial, it was revealed that Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri, was aware of potentially high levels of fake activity on the platform. An executive raised concerns about underfunded ...
Meta’s Efforts To Find An Opaque AI Future Undo FTC’s Case Against It
With the FTC’s antitrust suit against him well in mind, what is he supposed to do? He’s got a business to run, and he’s ...