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Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial
Meta’s lead attorney called a once-prominent tech journalist a “failed blogger.” Long-simmering tension between Silicon ...
The 2006 Zuckerberg Quote at the Center of Meta’s Antitrust Trial
Facebook is about real connections to actual friends,” Mark Zuckerberg said. Here’s why that could be a problem for Meta.
Meta's 'Hail Mary' Before Landmark Antitrust Trial Began: Here's Who The Company Called
Meta Platforms wanted to avoid its antitrust trial and reached out to a company that had written negative stories on the ...
Meta’s FTC Trial: Instagram Reels Not a True TikTok Substitute, FTC Witness Argues
The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a ...
Meta on trial: Every revelation from the Meta-FTC antitrust trial so far
The antitrust trial is years in the making, with the FTC originally opening the investigation in 2019 during the first Trump ...
The Morning After: What we learned from the FTC v. Meta antitrust trial (so far)
Years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in a bid to halt acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that ...
The TikTok ban is back in court — in Meta’s antitrust trial
TikTok is back in a Washington, DC courthouse discussing the US law that — at least on paper — effectively banned the app.
At antitrust trial, Meta's Zuckerberg admits he bought Instagram because it was 'better'
The case, filed during Donald Trump's first term, is widely seen as a test of the new Trump administration's promises to take on Big Tech companies.
Meta's defense uses animated graphics to energize its weekslong FTC antitrust trial
Meta's lawyer mounted a boisterous defense, mixing in animated graphics and colorful asides to kick off the antitrust trial.
Meta ‘nudged’ prominent Big Tech critic in plea for help ahead of landmark FTC antitrust trial: sources
Meta “nudged” a prominent Big Tech critic to help Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media giant curry favor with powerful Republicans ...
Meta Antitrust Trial Begins That Could Force Instagram Sale
Meta went to court Monday against the Federal Trade Commission in an antitrust case that could force the social media titan ...
Will Meta have to give up Instagram? A huge antitrust trial looks to upend social media.
If the government gets its way, it could force a breakup of the social-media giant. One analyst asks: “Without Instagram and WhatsApp, what really is Meta?” ...