Zuckerberg was the first witness to take the stand. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's boss, had a "crazy idea" in 2022 for Facebook — purge all users' friends. This came to light on Monday after the US ...

Mary Cunningham is a news associate at CBS News, based in New York. She has worked on both the broadcast side, with CBS News 24/7 streaming, and the digital side, writing stories for CBSNews.com.

Another FTC theory is that Meta has been able to increase its ad load over time because its users don’t have alternative ...

Mark Zuckerberg claimed Wednesday that China-owned TikTok was a “highly urgent” competitive threat to Meta – as he looked to derail the FTC’s bid to break up the owner of Facebook and ...

During an antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg admitted Facebook acquired Instagram due to its superior camera product, supporting the FTC's claim that Meta strategically bought rivals. Zuckerberg ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in the face of growing antitrust concerns and competing interests with Facebook. The revelation comes ...

Emails presented during the FTC's antitrust trial reveal Mark Zuckerberg foresaw a potential Instagram breakup as early as 2018. Internal concerns arose that Instagram's success was overshadowing ...

Meta’s antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals, hinges on unknowable alternate versions of Silicon Valley history. By Mike Isaac ...

Then in 2013, Zuckerberg told then-growth head Javier Olivan he worried that WhatsApp would develop features similar to Facebook and Instagram and could “start winning in the US and other ...

Facebook has lost cultural relevance in recent years, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg had one wild idea to encourage new user engagement – force everyone to rebuild their friendship groups. Emails from ...

Social media titan Mark Zuckerberg testified for a second day Tuesday in a landmark US antitrust trial, defending his ...