Zuckerberg announces again to the court to defend the definition

On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg returned to Washington courtsOn the second day of Judgment against your target companyCrusher Facebook Purchase Instagram Y WhatsApp To flood potential competitors.

The head of the California giant, who made everything in his power to avoid this federal trial, spoke on Monday about the beginnings of Facebook and began on Tuesday to answer questions in the court.

The experience is a setback for Zuckerbergfrom He has increased his contact with the new administration of the president Donald Trump Hoping to resolve the case outside the courts and avoid eight weeks of views of the Federal Court.

The case will be judged after five years of submitting the complaint under the first Trump administration.

If it is a giant Social networks Loss, He can have to separate from his stellar platform.

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Consider the misuse of the target

The Consumer Protection Agency, FTC, considers that Meta, then Facebook, offended its dominant position when it bought Instagram in 2012 for $ 1,000 million and WhatsApp in 2014 for 19,000 million.

These purchases allowed the goal to “eliminate immediate threats”, accusing the representative of the Authority on Monday.

The definition lawyer claimed that they are “success issues” for consumers.

Which market?

In the case, it is important to determine what is meant in the reference market.

For us authoritiesThe final services enter the category of “personal social networks”, which allow people to stay in contact with family and friends.

Other wonderful platforms, like a very popular Tiktok and YouTube, do not belong to this category.

Silicon Valley contradiction.

Zuckerberg confirmed to the court on Monday that facilitating friendships and family relations “is definitely part of what we do, but this activity did not really progress compared to other aspects.”

During the trial, Defending the goal will also insist on competition between its applications and those of its competitorsThis innovation regularly adds new functions to “acquiring minutes of the user’s attention.”

Instagram currently has 2000 million users worldwide.

Meta’s lawyers attribute this success to the important investment of the group.

At the same time, FTC will try to prove that a monopoly The goal in the “personal social networks” market It has been translated into the deterioration of use of users, who are forced to withstand a lot of ads and sudden changes.

It is one of the five main measures to combat monopoly that the United States government has taken in recent years in the technological sector.

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