{"id":923784,"date":"2025-04-19T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923784"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T05:59:59","slug":"meta-anti-trust-case-what-mark-zuckerberg-told-court-in-3-days-didnt-buy-instagram-whatsapp-because-of-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/meta-anti-trust-case-what-mark-zuckerberg-told-court-in-3-days-didnt-buy-instagram-whatsapp-because-of-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta anti-trust case: What Mark Zuckerberg told Court in 3 days \u2014 \u2018didn\u2019t buy Instagram, WhatsApp because of threat\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta anti-trust case: Meta Platforms Chief Mark Zuckerberg testified before the United States federal court for the third time on April 16, and argued against the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) allegation that his tech company Meta bought Instagram and WhatApp to reduce competition.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire was called during the trial as the first witness in the FTC&#8217;s case against the tech giant. He took questions from attorney Mark Hansen, who sought to establish that Meta does not hold a monopoly in the social media space and faces \u201cstiff global competition,\u201d AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta anti-trust case: Meta Platforms Chief Mark Zuckerberg testified before the United States federal court for the third time on April 16, and argued against the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) allegation that his tech company Meta bought Instagram and WhatApp to reduce competition. The billionaire was called during the trial as the first witness in the FTC&#8217;s case against the tech giant. He took questions from attorney Mark Hansen, who sought to establish that Meta does not hold a monopoly in the social media space and faces \u201cstiff global competition,\u201d AP reported.<\/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-923784","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\/923784","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=923784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}