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FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp

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Meta was worried about early messaging apps expanding into its business.

The FTC is presenting documents from 2013 in which Zuckerberg and another executive, Javier Olivan, discussed messaging app competitors and what they’d need to do to keep up. Olivan wrote that he had spent “sleepless nights” worrying about WhatsApp’s growth and warns that “it might be now or never” to improve Meta’s services, given how fast these guys keep growing / the ambitions they are signaling.

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