{"id":922396,"date":"2025-04-15T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922396"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:04:54","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-defends-whatsapp-instagram-deals-as-ftc-calls-out-meta-for-killer-acquisitions-what-did-he-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/15\/mark-zuckerberg-defends-whatsapp-instagram-deals-as-ftc-calls-out-meta-for-killer-acquisitions-what-did-he-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg defends WhatsApp, Instagram deals as FTC calls out Meta for \u2018killer acquisitions\u2019 \u2014 What did he say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Federal Trade Commission antitrust trial and defended Meta&#8217;s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp against monopoly claims. He argued that Meta competes with various social media platforms and emphasised the company&#8217;s focus on connecting users with friends and family while also learning about the world, according to a report by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>FTC highlighted Zuckerberg&#8217;s emails from 2011 to 2012, in which he referred to competition from Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Federal Trade Commission antitrust trial and defended Meta&#8217;s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp against monopoly claims. He argued that Meta competes with various social media platforms and emphasised the company&#8217;s focus on connecting users with friends and family while also learning about the world, according to a report by Bloomberg. FTC highlighted Zuckerberg&#8217;s emails from 2011 to 2012, in which he referred to competition from Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922396","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}