{"id":932996,"date":"2025-05-22T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932996"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:44:13","slug":"whatsapp-co-founder-says-never-intended-to-be-facebook-defends-meta-in-antitrust-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/whatsapp-co-founder-says-never-intended-to-be-facebook-defends-meta-in-antitrust-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp co-founder says, \u2018Never intended to be Facebook,\u2019 defends Meta in antitrust trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s defence in the ongoing antitrust trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like features,\u201d Acton stated during his testimony in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s defence in the ongoing antitrust trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). \u201cWe had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like features,\u201d Acton stated during his testimony in Washington.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932996","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=932996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}