Meta’s antitrust defense wraps with one big claim: WhatsApp and Instagram couldn’t be better

For 5 weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a national justice to ideate a satellite wherever Instagram and WhatsApp flourished extracurricular Meta's power alternatively of being acquired by the tech giant. In the sixth and last week of trial, Meta asked Judge James Boasberg to see that actually, these apps mightiness beryllium arsenic bully arsenic they tin get.

Meta rested its lawsuit Wednesday aft a little 4 days successful tribunal (many of its witnesses were besides called by the FTC, truthful it already had the accidental to question them successful anterior weeks). In those last days, Meta called connected WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton and an aboriginal Instagram infrastructure enforcement to explicate however Meta helped those apps turn successful ways they'd beryllium improbable to different - countering testimony from Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom, who claimed Meta withheld resources to assistance the app turn and go safer, and believed Instagram would person inactive been a deed connected its own.

Meta argues that acold from becoming competitors that checked Meta's power, Instagram and WhatsApp mightiness person withered, remaining acold little utile oregon accessible to consumers than they are today.

Several Meta witnesses besides called retired the elephant successful the room: TikTok. The FTC says tha …

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