{"id":922202,"date":"2025-04-15T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922202"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:35:31","slug":"meta-faces-high-stakes-antitrust-trial-over-instagram-whatsapp-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/15\/meta-faces-high-stakes-antitrust-trial-over-instagram-whatsapp-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces high-stakes antitrust trial over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following explosive accusations about Mark Zuckerberg\u2018s Meta working \u201chand in glove with Beijing,\u201d jeopardising US national security and betraying American values, the antitrust trial against the social media giant begins in Washington on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>In light of a nearly six-year investigation drowning Meta in legal turmoil, the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s (FTC) trial against Zuckerberg\u2019s 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\u2019s branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following explosive accusations about Mark Zuckerberg\u2018s Meta working \u201chand in glove with Beijing,\u201d 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\u2019s (FTC) trial against Zuckerberg\u2019s 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\u2019s branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}