Chief executive Meta, Mark ZuckerbergProtected his company from charges Monopon the social network market On the first day of hopeless trial in the United States. Popular social networks purchased a decade ago may be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
In the initial statementsDaniel Matson, the lawyer of the Federal Federal Commission for the United States Protect your interests By buying two startups and using their position to create great benefits.
In response to Matson’s questions, Zuckerberg said “I’m not happy” With the notion that there is no improvement in the development of the use of sharing Photos that competed with Instagram Due to its rapid growth. “This is what I seem to be highlighted,” said Zuckerberg, who always urges his teams to do better.
When Mettson asked him about the speed of the application, “Jucerberg said,” The complete timeline of Instagram growth is not on his head. ” Concluded the target “investing a lot” In the application after the acquisition in 2012, Zuckerberg continued and refused to claim that he would not be invested in the application.
It is better to buy than to compete
The main argument of FTC is that Target maintained a monopoly Following the Zuckerberg Strategy, “revealed in 2008: ‘It is better to buy than to compete’. That is faithful to that machim, says FDC Target “is systematically monitored To potential and purchased companies considering severe competitive threats. “
Inventory Before Facebook, before the Facebook, the company was the first to keep its competitor as an independent application for $ 750 million (659.5 million euros). Before that, Facebook was known by small “acquisitions”This includes a company buying a ‘starting’ to hire its talented workers and closes the purchased company.
Two years later, he repeated it WhatsApp Messaging appIt bought for $ 22,000 million (19,000 million euros). WhatsApp and Instagram helped Facebook to change your computer business To fill in mobile devices, and be popular among the younger generation, while the Snapchat (who tried to buy, but failed) and the contestants like Dictocado.
Embagrase, theFTC has a short definition of competition market Instagram and WhatsApp are considered to be contestants, excluding companies such as Meta, Dictoc, YouTube and Apple’s Message Service.
The “sack of surprises” of arguments
Mark HansenMeta lawyer, He said that the FTC makes a “excuse” a “excuse” False arguments. He said the goal had a lot of matches and that he had improved at the beginnings he had purchased. “This request, briefly, is wrong,” Hanson added: “Look at how you are, consumers have been great beneficiaries.”
On the other hand, Meta says the need for FTC is “challenging reality”. “Testing evidence will prove All 17 -year -old children know: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp Dictoc, YouTube, X, Himaz.
“Instead of breaking a large American company and trying more favorably, regulators must support US inventions China in important things like AI“, The report continues. In a presentation last week, the Meta FDC” insisted that “it must prove it The target has the power of monopoly Now in its related market, not at a point in the past. “
This, too, would be difficult, because over the years that the company had purchased WhatsApp and Instagram, more competitors have emerged in the interval of social networks. The only technical company that attracts attention is not the target From Federal antimonophulio regulators, Google and Amazon face their own cases. The aid phase of Google’s case is expected to begin on April 21. A federal judge declared great Illegal monopoly searches last August.
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