{"id":18517,"date":"2025-04-16T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/zuckerberg-feared-monopoly-scrutiny-and-mulled-instagram-split-files-show\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:37:34","slug":"zuckerberg-feared-monopoly-scrutiny-and-mulled-instagram-split-files-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/zuckerberg-feared-monopoly-scrutiny-and-mulled-instagram-split-files-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg feared monopoly scrutiny and mulled Instagram split, files show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Testimony that Instagram was \u2018better\u2019 seems to bolster allegations Meta used \u2018buy or bury\u2019 tactic to snap up rivals<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 in anticipation of a potential antitrust suit, documents unveiled at a trial in Washington showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cWhile most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they\u2019ve been split up,\u201d he wrote in an email at the time. He said there was a \u201cthere is a non-trivial chance\u201d his company would be forced to spin Instagram and WhatsApp out anyway.<\/p>\n

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\nTestimony that Instagram was \u2018better\u2019 seems to bolster allegations Meta used \u2018buy or bury\u2019 tactic to snap up rivals
\nMeta\u2019s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 in anticipation of a potential antitrust suit, documents unveiled at a trial in Washington showed on Tuesday.
\n\u200b\u200b\u201cWhile most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they\u2019ve been split up,\u201d he wrote in an email at the time. He said there was a \u201cthere is a non-trivial chance\u201d his company would be forced to spin Instagram and WhatsApp out anyway. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Testimony that Instagram was \u2018better\u2019 seems to bolster allegations Meta used \u2018buy or bury\u2019 tactic to snap up rivals Meta\u2019s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 in anticipation of a potential antitrust suit, documents unveiled at a trial in Washington showed on Tuesday. \u200b\u200b\u201cWhile most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history …<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg feared monopoly scrutiny and mulled Instagram split, files show<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}