Still, for the meta, the stake is high, as the FTC can chase the company’s breakdown, which includes the need to remove the MetaApp and Instagram. Losing Instagram will tighten meta revenue, as it is believed that Instagram will bring more than half of its US ad’s income, Emeraker Forecast December last
The trial is expected to continue for eight weeks, but the most expected testimony will come soon. This week’s testimony is expected by former Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg as well as Instagram co -founder, Kevin Sistrom.
All non -sealed emails and exhibitions will eventually be posted on a jointly handled website by FTC and Meta, but no link or timeline has been provided to the ARS when public evidence will be posted online.
Meta made fun of FTC’s “advertisement load Theory”
The FTC is arguing that Meta has paid excessive payments to obtain Instagram and WhatsApp to maintain the alleged monopoly in the personal social networking market, which includes rivals such as Snap Chat and Maywei, a social networking platform that makes itself confidential.
In the opening arguments, the FTC alleged that once the contest was over, Meta reduced the quality of its platform by limiting the user’s privacy and drowning users through advertising.
Meta has defended its acquisition by arguing that it has improved Instagram and WhatsApp. At the trial, Meta’s lawyer Hanson highlighted the FTC’s “advertisement load theory”, allegedly a court -filled courtroom, laughing in the benedict. Posted X on
“If you don’t like any ad, you scroll it in the past, it takes a second,” said Hanson.
Meanwhile, Newsted, who allegedly participated in the opening arguments, argued in his blog that “Instagram and WhatsApp provide a model that can achieve successful acquisition: Meta has more reliable and more reliable, more reliable and more secure, through investment of billions of dollars and millions of hours.”