{"id":924415,"date":"2025-04-22T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=924415"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:01:00","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-prefers-instagram-and-x-for-influencers-over-his-own-facebook-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/mark-zuckerberg-prefers-instagram-and-x-for-influencers-over-his-own-facebook-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg prefers Instagram and X for influencers over his own Facebook, here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when Meta\u2019s flagship platforms\u2014Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp\u2014continue to serve billions of users worldwide, internal communications reveal deep-seated concerns at the very top of the company about Facebook\u2019s long-term viability. As part of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Meta, a set of internal emails exchanged between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook head Tom Alison in April 2022 have surfaced. These documents indicate that Zuckerberg is more inclined to follow creators and influencers on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) than on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The internal emails highlight a growing disconnect between Facebook\u2019s aging model of \u201cfriending\u201d and the contemporary digital culture that increasingly revolves around \u201cfollowing\u201d influencers and public figures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when Meta\u2019s flagship platforms\u2014Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp\u2014continue to serve billions of users worldwide, internal communications reveal deep-seated concerns at the very top of the company about Facebook\u2019s long-term viability. As part of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s (FTC) ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Meta, a set of internal emails exchanged between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook head Tom Alison in April 2022 have surfaced. These documents indicate that Zuckerberg is more inclined to follow creators and influencers on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) than on Facebook. The internal emails highlight a growing disconnect between Facebook\u2019s aging [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924415","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=924415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}