FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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A slow start to the trial.
When the FTC called Mark Zuckerberg to testify as its first witness, people here at the courthouse were hoping for some fireworks.
Instead, the FTC spent most of the day taking Zuckerberg down memory lane, starting with the launch of Facebook in 2004 through its rocky shift to mobile devices around the 2012 IPO. I didn’t see much that was heavily redacted or presented as new evidence in the courtroom. Only towards the end of the day did the FTC begin asking Zuckerberg about the Instagram acquisition. WhatsApp wasn’t covered at all.
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