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Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
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 ...
FTC Rests at Meta Monopoly Trial, Shifting Focus to Defense
The Federal Trade Commission wrapped up its case for breaking up Meta Platforms Inc. as an illegal social-media monopoly, ...
WhatsApp co-founder says, ‘Never intended to be Facebook,’ defends Meta in antitrust trial
Brian Acton testified in a US court that WhatsApp did not aim to create Facebook-like features, supporting Meta's defense in ...
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while ...
Meta Shares Usage Insights in FTC Trial
Meta’s ongoing court battle against the FTC, which could result in Meta being forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp due to ...
Meta Pleads With Judge To Dismiss FTC's Antitrust Case in High-Stakes Trial
Meta urged a federal judge to dismiss the significant antitrust case filed by the FTC during an ongoing trial that could ...
Meta Asks Judge to Rule That FTC Failed to Prove Its Monopoly Case
(Reuters) -Facebook parent company Meta Platforms asked a Washington judge on Thursday to throw out the U.S. Federal Trade ...
Meta asks judge to toss FTC antitrust case
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, asked a federal judge to toss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against it. Meta ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta seeks mid-trial dismissal of FTC antitrust battle
Meta is battling a high-stakes antitrust case brought by the FTC, with the trial nearing a critical juncture. Meta has ...
Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta asks judge to throw out FTC’s antitrust case — in middle of high-stakes trial
Meta has asked a federal judge to throw out the FTC’s landmark antitrust case – in the middle of the trial that could result ...
Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it’s currently fighting in court. The motion argues that the ...