Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Monday at a high-stakes trial in Washington over U.S. antitrust enforcers’ claims that the company spent billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp to fend off Facebook competitors….
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the first witness.
Here’s what happened on the first day of the trial. At issue is Meta’s ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone’s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network’s cultural relevance. This “potentially crazy idea,” as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monda…
Meta’s AI-powered characters, human reasoning, ‘harmful themes,’ and the Polish elections are categories AI developers are exploring with the help of the industry’s foremost data-labeler.
Users buy and rent Uber driver accounts, raising safety concerns.
Mark Zuckerberg is set to take the stand for a second day amid Meta’s FTC trial.
The email was revealed as part of the FTC’s landmark antitrust case against Meta.
Tech giant Meta has been given the green light from the European Union’s data regulator to train its artificial intelligence models using publicly shared content across its social media platforms.Posts and comments from adult use…
The Facebook founder and CEO took the stand on the first day of the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta. The stakes are high, and not just for Zuck.
The headline numbers for FB Financial (FBK) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended March 2025, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.
Meta said in slides for the opening statement in its antitrust trial that just 7% of time spent on Instagram in 2025 is spent viewing friend content.
If the government gets its way, it could force a breakup of the social-media giant. One analyst asks: “Without Instagram and WhatsApp, what really is Meta?”
Blockbuster antitrust trial that could force break-up of $1.5tn tech giant gets under way in Washington
An AI Elon Musk voice can be heard in a video recorded at one California crosswalk saying, "Will you be my friend? I’ll give you a Cybertruck."
Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Meta, testified that Facebook has greatly evolved since he launched the platform more than 20 years ago.
The case could determine whether Mark Zuckerberg’s company might have to divest WhatsApp and Instagram.
Meta will start using publicly available content from European users to train its AI models, resuming work put on hold last year.
Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, recalls some of Zuckerberg’s past co…
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Meta announced on Monday that it’s going to train its AI models on public content, such as posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram, in the EU after previously pausing its plans to do so in response to regulatory pressure due to to data priva…
Social media users posted videos of strange messages supposedly spoken by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when crosswalk buttons were pressed in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City.
It could change social media as we know it.
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.
The Facebook owner will defend its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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The looming antitrust trial will be the first big test of President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission’s ability to challenge Big Tech.
Shauna Sweeney was Global Director of Industry and Community Marketing at Meta. She left to start an app to help people like her taking care of others.
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