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The Morning After: What we learned from the FTC v. Meta antitrust trial (so far)


The biggest news stories this morning: Tesla’s Robotaxi brand might be too generic to trademark, The enshitification of YouTube’s full album playlists, How to use a VPN on Roku.

Years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in a bid to halt acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. Like how Meta sees TikTok as an earnest threat, how Europeans aren’t buying the ad-free subscriptions (duh), and why Zuckerberg thought about nuking users’ friend lists annually to boost engagement. A leaked blog post discusses the research behind Material 3 Expressive and how the visual overhaul led to action elements standing out more and greater responsiveness on the users’ part.

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