Meta faces high-stakes antitrust trial over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions

Following explosive accusations about Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta working “hand in glove with Beijing,” jeopardising US national security and betraying American values, the antitrust trial against the social media giant begins in Washington on Monday.

In light of a nearly six-year investigation drowning Meta in legal turmoil, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) trial against Zuckerberg’s tech giant could flip its monopoly in the market. Further accused of pushing out competition by buying Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, Meta may be left with no choice but to divest of its expansive business network’s branches.