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Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial


FTC’s “entire” monopoly case rests on decade-old emails, Meta argued.

Facebook's former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, as well as Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, are expected to testify this week. The FTC is arguing that Meta overpaid to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp to maintain an alleged monopoly in the personal social networking market that includes rivals like Snapchat and MeWe, a social networking platform that brands itself as a privacy-focused Facebook alternative. At trial, Meta's lawyer Hansen made light of the FTC's "ad load theory," stirring laughter in the reportedly packed courtroom, Benedict posted on X.

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