Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial

Long-simmering hostility betwixt Silicon Valley and the property that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust proceedings against Meta.

During a heated cross-examination of the FTC's cardinal economical expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta's pb attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and erstwhile Biden authoritative Tim Wu successful pitching regulators connected an antitrust probe of the institution backmost successful 2019. The transportation platform for the probe that was shown successful tribunal included "public recognition" of the company's assertive acquisition strategy from 2 reporters: Kara Swisher, who presently hosts 2 podcasts for The Verge's genitor company, Vox Media, and Om Malik, the laminitis of the aboriginal tech blog GigaOm who is present a task capitalist.

In an effort to undercut Hemphill's credibility, Hansen caught Swisher and Malik successful the crossfire. He called Malik a "failed blogger" with an axe to grind against Meta. He past suggested that Swisher, whom helium referred to arsenic a Vanity Fair columnist (she past wrote for the tract in 2015), was likewise biased against the company. In court, helium projected a headline astir her precocious calling Mark Zuckerberg a "small small …

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