FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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He was on the stand for roughly 6 hours. The day focused mostly on how Instagram and WhatsApp fared after they were acquired, followed by Zuckerberg teaching his version of Social Media 101 to the court in the afternoon. We got the spicy memo from 2018 in which he suggested spinning off Instagram, but otherwise, there weren’t any big bombshells today.
FTC chair Andrew Ferguson and Meta’s global policy chief, Joel Kaplan, were seated inside the courtroom yesterday but were absent today. Tomorrow, we’ll probably see more of Zuckerberg on the stand and then testimony from ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.









