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

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Lauren Feiner
Your Honor, we sell ads.

In an echo of an infamous exchange from one of Zuckerberg’s earlier visits to Washington, Judge James Boasberg asks the CEO to clarify how iMessage and WhatsApp make money. Zuckerberg explains that Meta sells ads that send people to chat with businesses on WhatsApp. He also tells the judge that he thinks Apple is incentivized to keep iMessage exclusive to iOS so that its users don’t want to switch from iPhones to Android.

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