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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 exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri knew 40% of platform’s activity was ‘Fake,’ Meta’s US FTC trial reveals
During Meta's FTC trial, it was revealed that Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri, was aware of potentially high levels of fake ...
FTC chair weighs in on Meta antitrust trial
Chairman Andrew Ferguson weighed in on the agency’s antitrust case against social media giant Meta Platforms in a Monday appearance on “Mornings with Maria." ...
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 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.
Zuckerberg's Internal Emails May Doom Meta's Bench Trial Defense, Experts Say
"The FTC's case has gained momentum, and it now has a better than 50-50 chance of winning," Susman Godfrey partner Barry ...
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Meta attorney calls out tech journalists at trial
Meta lead attorney Mark Hansen criticized tech journalists Om Malik and Kara Swisher at the company’s Federal Trade ...
Meta’s Efforts To Find An Opaque AI Future Undo FTC’s Case Against It
With the FTC’s antitrust suit against him well in mind, what is he supposed to do? He’s got a business to run, and he’s ...