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Mark Zuckerberg considered deleting everyone's Facebook friends in 2022, admits platform's focus has shifted | "The 'friend' part has gone down quite a bit"


Zuckerberg was on the witness stand on Monday to defend Meta against a case brought by the FTC in 2022. The agency alleges the company created a...

The agency alleges the company created a market-dominating monopoly when it bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, thereby violating US competition laws. The hearing also revealed that Zuckerberg had a "crazy idea" in 2022 that sounds like it would have been universally hated: wiping everyone's friend connections. The company announced last month that "the magic of friends has fallen away," and it would therefore be introducing several so-called "OG" Facebook experiences throughout the year.

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