WhatsApp co-founder says, ‘Never intended to be Facebook,’ defends Meta in antitrust trial

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, told a US federal court on Tuesday that the messaging platform never intended to build social networking features like Facebook. This claim bolsters Meta’s defence in the ongoing antitrust trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

“We had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like features,” Acton stated during his testimony in Washington.