Systrom confidently answers that building out video, messaging, and photo tagging features would have been entirely possible without Meta, and that he already had plans to pursue some of those features prior to the acquisition. “It was not necessarily difficult, and there were plenty of other companies that had functionalities similar to this,” he says. When Meta’s attorney objects that this is speculation, Judge Boasberg overrules him, saying, “I feel that in our but-for world discussion, it’s all going to be speculation.”