Published on: 2025-04-19 03:37:57
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The government should be scrutinizing Meta’s power. Unfortunately, its legal attack isn’t cutting to the heart of what keeps Meta big. This week, I spent three days in a Washington, DC courtroom watching Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was there defending his company from being broken up by the Federal Trade Commission, which is seeking to unwind his acquisitions of Instagram and What
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 06:17:39
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just made a huge mistake. Or more accurately, a bunch of huge mistakes, which have drawn the wrath of lawyers for Meta's peers Apple, Google, and Snapchat. The issue is that during the latest phase of its massive antitrust trial, Meta lawyers presented slides revealing information it held about other companies. Though technically redacted, third party details compiled by Meta were accessible by anyone with the file — because the redactions were easily reversible. Luckil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:56:53
The Meta monopoly trial has raised a question that Meta hopes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can't effectively answer: How important is it to use social media to connect with friends and family today? Connecting with friends was, of course, Facebook's primary use case as it became the rare social network to hit 1 billion users—not by being acquired by a Big Tech company but based on the strength of its clean interface and the network effects that kept users locked in simply because all the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 15:34:10
The trial between the US Federal Trade Commission and Meta began this week—and the future of the company is at stake. The FTC wants Meta to sell off two prized assets, Instagram and WhatsApp, arguing that it acquired them illegally to suppress competition. Today on the show, Senior Writer Paresh Dave joins host Zoë Schiffer to talk about what we know right now about the government’s case—and what we learned when Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday. Articles mentioned in this episode: FTC v M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:42:00
What just happened? In a landmark decision that signals a new era of regulatory scrutiny for global technology giants, Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google, accusing the company of violating the nation's anti-monopoly law by compelling smartphone manufacturers to preinstall its apps on Android devices. This marks the first time Japan has taken such action against a member of the so-called GAFAM group – Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Micros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 09:52:40
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 18:12:22
As times change, so do mission statements, especially in the fast-and-loose world of tech. In recent months, we've seen Google walk back its pledge to "do no evil," and OpenAI quietly delete a policy prohibiting its software's use for "military technology." Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is no exception. Its 2008 motto, "Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life," is now a distant memory — according to Zuckerberg himself, who testified this week that Facebook's main purpose
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 15:00:50
There's another development in the saga that is governments accusing Google of monopolistic practices favoring its search app and Chrome. The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has issued a cease and desist order to Google, demanding the tech company end all efforts to gain preferential treatment on Android phones. The watchdog alleges that Google required phone makers to preinstall Chrome and Google Search on Android phones — along with setting Chrome as the default browser. It also claims the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 23:28:48
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in social media monopoly trial 7 hours ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg leaves court on Monday Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken the witness stand in a landmark antitrust trial to defend his company against allegations that his company operates a social media monopoly. His testimony is part of a case first brought by the Federal Trade Commission (F
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 23:11:14
Starting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust trial Monday with a bang, Daniel Matheson, the FTC's lead litigator, flagged a "smoking gun"—a 2012 email where Mark Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook could buy Instagram to "neutralize a potential competitor," The New York Times reported. And in "another banger of an email from Zuckerberg," Brendan Benedict, an antitrust expert monitoring the trial for Big Tech on Trial, posted on X that the Meta CEO wrote, "Messenger isn't beating WhatsAp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:49:01
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook "panicked" when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off. "It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing astronomical growth, and that's the point at which it resorted to this buy-or-bury scheme where, if it couldn't out-compete a rival, it either bought them out or cut them off its network," Khan said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Meta , the parent company of Facebook, Inst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 03:20:50
In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty Images Meta will face off against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday in a high-stakes antitrust trial that could result in the company divesting Instagram and WhatsApp. The trial in Washington is expected to last weeks and centers around the FTC's allegations that Meta monopolizes the personal social networking market. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former COO Sheryl Sand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 05:41:19
Landmark antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram 8 hours ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America technology correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Reuters A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday. The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 05:34:03
The US Federal Trade Commission's trial against Meta begins in Washington, DC on Monday, as the tech giant fights to avoid the spinoff of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC alleges that Meta illegally acquired the two startups in an effort to suppress competition. Meta (then Facebook) bought the photo-sharing startup Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. About two years later, the company snatched up the chat tool WhatsApp for roughly $22 billion. The FTC, one of the nation’s antitrust enforcement ag
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 12:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:00:01
In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT This photo illustration created on January 7, 2025, in Washington, DC, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo. Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty Images Meta will face off against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday in a high-stakes antitrust trial that could result in the company divesting Instagram and WhatsApp. The trial in Washington is expected to last weeks and centers around the F
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 03:00:00
If a government agency calls and tells you to pay a time or you'll face jail time, it can be frightening. You might even make a reckless decision out of fear, just to make the problem disappear. Many victims have done the same, turning over their financial information to fraudsters hoping to prey on their distress. The Federal Trade Commission is warning people about imposter scams, in which a fraudster pretends to be from a government agency like the FTC to steal your bank account information
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 15:18:21
Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTC’s internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according to the sources. FTC spokesperson Joe Simonson told Axios, which first reported the news, that DOGE is there “to root out waste, fraud and abuse.” It’s unclear wha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 04:55:27
Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their removals are "in direct violation of a century of federal law and Supreme Court precedent." "Plaintiffs bring this action to vindicate their right to serve the remainder of their respective terms, to defend the integrity of the Commission, and to continue their work for the American people," said the lawsuit filed by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya in US District Court
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 10:18:16
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the two Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission who were fired earlier this month by President Donald Trump without a specific cause, are suing Donald Trump and FTC leadership over their oustings. The lawsuit sets up a potential showdown regarding presidential authority as it relates to independent agencies. Slaughter and Bedoya, who are represented by the nonprofit anti-authoritarian organization Protect Democracy, are seeking back pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 15:01:25
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Staff at the Federal Trade Commission have been instructed to no longer refer to the agency as “independent” in complaints, according to an email obtained by The Verge. “Moving forward, when describing the Commission as the Plaintiff in a Complaint, please track the below edit,” B
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 22:00:47
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow commissioner Melissa Holyoak and executive director David Robbins. Commissioners Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya write that, “Last week
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 21:54:52
is a features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. A journalist trained as a lawyer, she has been writing about tech for 10 years. On Tuesday, the president of the United States fired the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission in clear contravention of what has been the law since 1935. News outlets — including The Verge — all went up with their articles as fast as they could. The headlines and stories across the board were prett
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 22:56:55
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. President Donald Trump’s sudden and unlawful firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s two remaining Democrats will serve the tech billionaires who backed him, not the American people, warned one of the ousted officials today. “I think we need to be focused on the billionaires over
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:22:56
President Trump fired both Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday, advancing his administration's claim that the president can fire FTC commissioners despite a US law and a 1935 Supreme Court ruling stating that the president cannot do so without good cause. Trump fired Democrats Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, both of whom said the firings are illegal. Trump "tried to illegally fire me. I'll see the president in court," Bedoya wrote. The FTC was created "to fig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 22:36:41
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against the "Click Profit" business opportunity scheme for allegedly earning $14 million while deceiving consumers with false promises of guaranteed passive income through online stores. Click Profit is an online business paltform promoted on social media and through websites that claims to help consumers generate passive income by setting up and managing e-commerce stores on Amazon, Walmart, and other platforms. The company claims its cus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 06:14:00
In brief: If something appears too good to be true, it almost always is. That appears to be the case with an e-commerce company being sued by the FTC for allegedly deceiving customers. Click Profit promised clients they could make huge sums of money in passive income using its proprietary system, powered by AI, that created and managed Amazon storefronts. But the agency says otherwise. The FTC writes that Click Profit took millions from consumers using the promise of earning big profits from on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 21:23:19
In Brief President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to a 1935 Supreme Court precedent prohibiting the firing of FTC commissioners for reasons other than “good cause.” The White House terminated commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya earlier Tuesday, The New York Times reported. In a statement, Slaughter called the firings “illegal.” “Today the president illegally fired me from my position as a fede
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 02:10:39
For a brief period, maybe even just a second, it seemed as though the populism built into the Donald Trump campaign just might preserve the Lina Khan theory of Big Tech regulation at the Federal Trade Commission. Turns out, not so much. Wired first reported that more than 300 blog posts critical of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and AI firms—mostly published during the Biden administration while Khan was the head of the agency—have been removed from the agency’s website. The blogs rang
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