Mark Zuckerberg denies Meta bought rivals to conquer them


Zuckerberg departs federal court in Washington, DC, US, on April 16, 2025. Zuckerberg said that ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok posed a ‘highly urgent’ competitive threat to Meta Platforms Inc when it first sprang up in 2018, as he testified for a third day in the FTC’s antitrust trial. — Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on April 16 denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralise them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close.

The case could see the Facebook owner forced to divest itself of the two apps, which have grown into global powerhouses since their buyouts.

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