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The co -founder of Instagram Kevin Sistrom Mark Zuckerberg has accused the application of the image sharing in a certificate that supports anti -monopoly organizers in a monopoly experience that can lead to dead disintegration.

Systrom, the main witness who called on the US Federal Trade Committee, said on Tuesday to a federal court in Washington. Dead He failed to provide sufficient resources to achieve Instagram growth potential after obtaining it in 2012 for a billion dollars.

The accusations that were struck at the heart of the case filed by the Anti -Monopathic Agency, which accused dead of construction and Monopoly Partially by acquiring the emerging competitor Instagram.

FTC Meta later claims the application’s growth to avoid “network collapse” on Facebook, according to A. Secret email Zuckerberg wrote in 2018 and was presented to the court.

Systrom said Zuckerberg’s belief Instagram The “Facebook growth” was a “great driving force” behind the Meta CEO in 2018 to cut a number of tools that META provides at first after acquiring Instagram to grow growth.

There was an exciting softness in terms of [Facebook’s] He added: “We are daily active users and everyone have their theories.” Mark Zuckerberg and [Meta executive] Chris Cox believed that the Instagram growth that has greatly contributed to the softness. “

Systrom told the Meta Court that failed to provide employees who are believed to be necessary to develop Instagram was “one of the reasons” he left in 2018.

FTC lawyer presented an e -mail written by Systrom in 2017 about Meta Meta, which was devoted to promoting video development. “We got zero from 300 gradual video heads and it is an unacceptable and degrading result,” he wrote.

Meta said on Tuesday: “Documents outside the context and years on the acquisitions that were reviewed by FTC more than a decade will not obscure the competition facts we face or overcome the weak FTC.”

Meta’s lawyer began interrogating Systrom on Tuesday afternoon, on the pretext that the social media company helped to advance Instagram growth, which had only 13 employees and not revenues when obtaining it.

Systrom resigned alongside the other co -founder of Instagram, Mike Krieger, in September 2018, increasingly frustrated by Zuckerberg’s decision to integrate their systems with Facebook and WhatsApp systems into a campaign to create a “family of applications”, according to reports at that time.

Their exits were followed in 2017 and early 2018 from the founders of WhatsApp, Jean Com and Brian Acton, who clashed with Zuckerberg on privacy and data protection in the aftermath Cambridge analytical scandal. The WhatsApp acquisition of 19 billion dollars in 2014 is also undergoing the FTC case.

Zuckerberg, who witnessed last week, argued that Instagram, as well as WhatsApp, was obtained to accelerate its growth – pointing to the dramatic jump of users after deals.

But Systrom told the court that Instagram would have continued growth – albeit so quickly – if the application remained independent, adding, “The first slowdown that we may have perhaps a year on Facebook.”

During the interrogation of Systrom, Kevin Hof, the lawyer who represents Meta, confirmed that Instagram added “many features, more” after the acquisition, which benefited from users. He also pointed to the measures carried out by Meta to help enhance the participation on Instagram, such as showing Facebook users that they have non -read content on the image sharing application and not to charge Instagram to advertise on Facebook.

Systrom agreed that access to the META advertising system helped Instagram investing faster than it could be independently.

He said Meta had a “Better” growth team, “If you could work with them.

Systrom suggested tense relationships with Zuckerberg may have contributed to the withdrawal of Instagram Meta resources. “Each company needs to make bodies, however.[it]I felt something else was happening. “

He said that Meta coach was always happy with the presence of Instagram in the family because he was growing very quickly.

According to an e -mail for the year 2018 submitted to the court last week, Zuckerberg thought of spinning about Instagram – a step he wrote, as he wrote, can help keep Systrom and “immediately stop artificially on Instagram in a way that undermines Facebook networks.”