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

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Facebook worried most about Google or Apple buying WhatsApp.

“Out of all the potential buyers, I thought Google and Apple would be the worst ones because they already ran the operating systems of the phones,” Olivan testifies. They were “particularly dangerous acquirers because they have an unfair advantage on us” by running the underlying operating system, he says.

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