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Acton challenges the US Federal Trade Commission's allegations that Meta's acquisition of WhatsApp eliminated a potential ...
New scam tactic includes image of fake Facebook employee ID, as FTC reveals consumers lost $470 million to text message scams last year. Stephanie Haney VERIFIES.
The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a ...
In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...
In the name of "restoring freedom of speech," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants to override the editorial judgments of ...
The social media company called only a handful of witnesses as it sought to prove it helped Instagram and WhatsApp after ...
Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what’s obvious very much calls into question the FTC’s ...
Brian Acton testified in a US court that WhatsApp did not aim to create Facebook-like features, supporting Meta's defense in ...
By attempting to regulate perceived bias by social media platforms, the FTC could run afoul of the First Amendment.
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete ...
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it ...