Meta Made a Wild Screwup in the Documents It Showed in Court

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. Luckily, the information revealed wasn't exactly nuclear secrets — one slide notes hat iPhone users prefer Apple's messaging app to Meta's, per The Verge — but the other companies' lawyers say that's not the point: it's that a company the size of Meta shouldn't be treating sensitive court documents, nevermind the entire proceedings, with such utter disregard. Snapchat's lawyer slammed Meta's "cavalier approach and casual disregard," according to The Verge, and questioned if Meta "would have applied m ... Read full article.