It is a pity that cameras in federal courts are not allowed, because I would really like to see Mark Zuckerberg testify.
He was an initial witness in the antitrust demand of the Federal Commerce Commission against Meta, and that in ITELF was news.
The clash is the broader attempt to dismember the world’s largest social network, and goes to the heart of how competition is defined.
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Not since the government broke AT&T more than four decades ago, a mega corporation faced the possibility of being destroyed.
The lawsuit was filed in Trump’s first term (the president could not bear Facebook at that time), aggressively chased by Joe Biden, and now he has finally reached trial in a Washington audience room.
Trump once told me that Facebook was a threat to society that he used as a justification for the discharge of his effort to prohibit Tastktok.
The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was the main witness in the antimonopoly demand of the Federal Commerce Commission against his company. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
But since he won a second term, Zuck, like many technological brothers, has approached the new Sheriff in the city, including a $ 1 million donation to the president’s inauguration.
There are reports that when the man who runs Facebook recently with Trump, asked about the possibility of abandoning demand. Obviously, it did not work.
The trial focus is Zuckerberg’s decision to buy Instagram and WhatsApp when they were small new companies.
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The main lawyer of the FTC interrogated Zuckerberg about a platform aimed at promoting ties between family and friends with a concentration in showing users interesting third parties through their news.
“It is the case that time, the ‘interest’ part of that makes the Goths build more than the part of ‘friend’,” said Zuckerberg. Hey added that “the” friend “part has lowered a lot, but it is still something that matters to us.”
Translation: Joda to friends. Very 2010. We have moved on.
Zuckerberg spoke slowly, at least according to the journalists who were there, and yesterday he returned to the hot seat. The FTC lawyers pressed him in an email pile that he had sent:
“We really need to act together quickly about this, since Instagram grows very fast.
“Instagram has become a large and viable competitor for us in mobile photos, which will be increasingly the future of photos.”
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“If Instagram continues to kick the ass in the photos, or if Google buy them, then in the coming years they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we are doing now.” Which was a failure called Facebook Chamber.
In another message, Zuck described the “really scary” Instagram growth, saying “we may want to consider paying a lot of money for this.” Facebook bought Instagram for $ 1 billion in 2012, and two years after $ 19 billion at WhatsApp.
In an email to Tom Alison, Chief of Facebook, Z offered alternatives:
“Option 1. double the double of the friend. A crazy power idea is to consider cleaning everyone’s graphics and make them begin again.”
Alison replied: “I am not sure of option #1 in his proposal (duplicate the friend) would be viable given my understanding how vital it is the case of use of a friend for Ig.”
Meta bought Instagram for $ 1 billion and WhatsApp for $ 19 billion before they take off. (Goal)
Now we reach the fascinating part.
It is not news that Mark’s trial can be exhausted. Do you remember when you insisted that virtual reality would be the next big thing?
But he argues that Meta has every son of rivals in the “entertainment” area, such as X, Tap and YouTube, and Height could have added Snap, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO’s Max. This is the battle for the eyeballs now. There are only so many hours in the day. Mindsre is everything.
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And with fashionable group chats, goal does not do well in that child of the interaction, with Instagram as a possible exception.
Now, of course, it is in Zuckerberg’s own interest testify that competes with anything that has a screen. But it is not so far from the brand. Note that goal has 4 billion active monthly users.
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Surely I would like we could see the CEO in conflict arguing that it is flooded in a fixed rivals sea.