If the Meta can agree to the court that the FTC market definition is wrong and that Taxoto is the biggest competitor of Meta, then the Meta market share falls below the monopoly standard, the FTC case is “under -cut”, the Big Tech on the trial on the trial. Reported.
But are Facebook and Instagram alternatives to tricktok?
Although Meta paints the image that tacituk users naturally attracted Instagram during the closure of the tricktok, it is clear that Meta gave them a lot of advertisements to move them in this direction. Wired reported that even a conspiracy theory was that Meta had purchased techotok within a few hours after going down the tech, when consumers saw that Meta banners encouraged them to connect their tectic accounts to the meta platform. However, even reported meta -aid bullets did not seem to have done so many tickets users, as the censor tower’s data at the time indicated that “Instagram and Facebook appear to only increase daily active users and downloads only.”
Perhaps the more interesting question that the court can entertain is not where the tricktok users go when the tricktok is down, but where Instagram or Facebook users do not want to use this platform, they do not want to use these platforms. If the FTC can argue that people who want to connect with friends or family will not change the tricktok for this purpose, their market definition can fly.
Former Leader Attorney, Kenneth Denness, told ARS in the Google search case of Karol & Morning and the DOJ’s winning Google Search monopoly case, saying that the chief judge, James Bosburg, made it clear on the summary decision that it was not to answer the question of “friends and friends” to acknowledge the hostility of the meta with Techtok.
So although Zuckerberg was “quite convinced”, his testimony on Taktok could not pass the judge much. However, there was a exchange in the case where Boseberg asked, “If friends are on a particular platform, how much does it matter if friends can share it beyond?” According to Big Tech, Zuckerberg praised it as a “good question” and “explained that it doesn’t matter much because people can distribute everyone into flat platforms, using each one for their value as a” discovery engine “.