WASHINGTON (AP) – Meta Mark Zuckerberg’s CEO of Meta Zuckerberg once thought in the classroom Instagram From her mother company due to fears of litigation in the fight against monopoly, according to an email that showed on Tuesday the second day of the anti -monopoly experience claiming that Mita is illegally monopolizing the social media market.

In the 2018 e -mail, Zuckerberg wrote that he started wondering whether “Instagram Out” is the only way to achieve important goals, with the growth of major technology companies. He also pointed out that “there is an unsuccessful opportunity” that can be forced to get out of Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp within five to 10 years anyway.

He wrote that while most companies resist separation, “the history of companies is that most companies actually perform better after division.”

Lawyer Daniel Matthesson on Tuesday, who leads the anti -monopoly issue in the Federal Trade Committee, which was in her mind in the history of companies, asked Zuckerberg: “I am not sure of what was going on in my mind at the time.”

Zuckerberg, who was the first witness, for more than seven hours over two days in the trial that could force a dead person to cut Instagram and WhatsApp, and bought Tech Tech Giant more than a decade that has since grown to social media.

While interrogating Zuckerberg on Tuesday morning, Matheson indicated that he referred to Instagram as a “increasing network, threat and threat.” The lawyer also referred to Zuckerberg indicating an attempt to neutralize the competitor by buying the company.

But Zuckerberg said that while Machon was able to show the documents in the court that indicated his concern about Instagram growth, he also had many talks about the enthusiasm of his company in obtaining Instagram to make a better product.

Zuckerberg also said that Facebook was creating a camera application to share mobile phones, and it was believed that Instagram was better in that, “so I wanted to buy it.”

Zuckerberg also prompted Mattheke’s claim that the reason for purchasing the company is to neutralize the threat.

“I think this misuses what an email is,” Zuckerberg said.

In his interrogation of Zuckerberg, Matheson has repeatedly launched emails – many of which are more than a decade – written by Zuckerberg and his partners before and after the acquisition of Instagram.

While admitting the documents, Zuckerberg often sought to reduce the contents, saying that he wrote in the early stages of thinking about the acquisition and that what he wrote at that time did not get the full range of his interest in the company.

Matheson also launched a February 2012 message in which Zuckerberg wrote to the former Facebook financial director that Instagram and Path, a social networking application, has already created meaningful networks that could be “very troubled for us.”

Zuckerberg witnessed that the letter was written in the context of a wide discussion about whether they should buy companies to accelerate their own developments.

Zuckerberg also saw that buying the company, getting it out of the market and building its own version of it was “reasonable”.

Later on Tuesday, Meta’s lawyer, Meta, began interrogating Zuckerberg. Hansen stressed, in his opening data on Monday, that Meta services are free and that the company, away from monopoly, has already has a lot of competition. He has raised these issues in more than an hour of the interrogation of Zuckerberg, where more will come on Wednesday.

“It is very competitive,” Zuckerberg said, noting that shipping to use services such as Facebook is likely to pay users away, because similar services are widely available elsewhere.

The trial is one of the first major tests of President Donald Trump’s ability to challenge large technology. The lawsuit was filed against Meta – then it is called Facebook – in 2020, during the first period of Trump. It claims that the company bought Instagram and WhatsApp for competing squash and creating illegal monopoly in the social media market.

Buy Facebook Instagram-which was an application to share images without ads-for a billion dollars in 2012.

Instagram was the first company to purchase on Facebook and continued to run it as a separate application. Until then, Facebook is famous for the youngest “Have-Heres”-a famous Silicon Valley deal in which the company buys a startup as a way to employ its talented workers, then closes the acquired company. Two years later, I did it again with the WhatsApp application, which she bought for $ 22 billion.

WhatsApp and Instagram Facebook helped transfer his business from desktop computers to mobile devices, and stay common among young generations as competitors like Snapchat (This is what he also tried, but he failed to buy) and Tiktok appeared.

However, FTC has a narrow definition of Meta’s competitive market, with the exception of companies like Tiktok, YouTube Apple correspondence service is considered competitors to Instagram and WhatsApp.

American boycott judge James Pasperg heads the case. Late last year, he denied a dead request to obtain a brief ruling and decided that the case should go to the trial.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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2025-04-16 14:12:00