FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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Buying TikTok’s precursor would have been ‘too complicated’ because of its China ties.
That’s what Zuckerberg tells the FTC attorney who’s questioning him now. Zuckerberg says he didn’t want to deal with the complexity of “any connection that they had to China.” Musical.ly went on to be acquired by China-based ByteDance, was rebranded to TikTok, and grew into a major Meta competitor, he says.
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