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

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Instagram’s probability of failing without Meta’s help was ‘low.’

But Systrom concedes it’s not zero. He continues to give Meta’s attorney a hard time by firmly resisting attempts to get him to admit that he’s merely speculating about his prediction that Instagram would have been big on its own. “You deal in a world of probabilities,” Systrom says. “You can never be sure.”

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