Zuckerberg underscores TikTok competition as Meta fights monopoly allegations

The government doesn’t understand Meta

The government should be scrutinizing Meta’s power. Unfortunately, its legal attack isn’t cutting to the heart of what keeps Meta big. This week, I spent three days in a Washington, DC courtroom watching Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was there defending his company from being broken up by the Federal Trade Commission, which is seeking to unwind his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp on the grounds that they were anticompetitive. At times, he…

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Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok slowed Meta's growth

In Meta's antitrust trial on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that TikTok's success was a risk to Meta's business, saying the short-form