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Meta execs discussed whether WhatsApp could ‘wedge’ its way into social media.

Amin Zoufonoun, a former Meta corporate development executive, testifies in a video deposition about “spirited debates” over whether mobile messaging could threaten Facebook’s flagship app, though he doesn’t specifically recall colleagues seeing it as a threat. He remembers colleagues wondering, for example, if messaging apps could “use that as a Trojan horse wedge to get into the social networking space.”

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