Meta says it was made on Instagram and WhatsApp well as they could get

For five weeks, the Federal Trade Committee asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside the control of Meta instead of obtaining it by the technology giant. In the sixth and last week of the trial, Mita asked Judge James Bouasburg to consider that in reality, these applications may be as good as possible.

Mita rested on Wednesday after four brief days in court (many of her witnesses were also called by FTC, so she had already had an opportunity to interrogate them in previous weeks). In those last days, Meta He called on the founder WhatsApp Brian Acton Instagram infrastructure executive director is early to explain how Meta helped these applications in ways that are unlikely to be otherwise – confrontation Certificate from Instagram Kevin SystromThe META claimed to block resources to help the application to grow and become safer, and it is believed that Instagram would have been successful on its own.

Meta argues that, out of being competitors who examined the strength of Meta, Instagram and WhatsApp, they may wither, and remain less useful or accessible to consumers than they are today.

He also called on many witnesses of metaphor elephant in the room: Tikhak. FTC says social media applications focus mainly on entertainment such as Tiktok and YouTube Not part of the personal social media services market Mita’s monopoly – as users call their friends and family. Meta says this definition lacks a point of how to compete in the field of social media. Instead of focusing on how consumers use the aspects of applications, as it argues, the judge must focus on any players in the industry competing with each other. She says what restricts his strength is the continuous battle for the time and interest of users, the content of creators, and the dollars of advertising.

Economic experts in the Meta argue that the rapid growth of Tijook constitutes a real competition that must be calculated. Although Tiktok has evolved into a more northern competitor for Meta products in the years that passed on the case in 2020 for the first time in 2020, Boasberg November command A dead argument about the competition for time and attention is “correct but beside the point.” Acceptance of Meta’s offer requires accepting that “Meta is not only competing with YouTube, Tiktok and X, but also with watching a movie in a friend’s house, reading a book in the library, and playing poker online,” he wrote. “Anti -monopoly law does not require the consideration of such” unlimited range “of potential alternatives.”

He also warned that the government’s allegations “sometimes are forced into the precedents of the bustling monopoly of this country to its borders.” During the trial, Boasberg seemed seriously taking Alex Shultz, the chief marketing official of Point Meta on: that Facebook and Instagram have already added approximately a greater number of American users. FTC noticed that the Meta user growth rate may seem slower because it has already been added most of the 250 million potentially qualified users in the country, but even in the face of its demanding rival from Tiktok and YouTube, this does not mean that it is still growing in general. Schultz said that this is exactly the reason why competition for interest with these applications has become very important, because if it is almost downloaded, those that are opened regularly are what matters.

Boasberg later asked from the lead economist at FTC, Scott HEMPHill, the response to this, adding that it would be “very difficult” that Instagram be much larger in the United States than it is already. Hemphill argued that Instagram’s growth on a large scale today does not mean that Meta made social media better for users than it is. He said that without the leadership of Meta, perhaps the entire personal social networking market – not only Instagram – may have been better for consumers on measures such as consumer luxury and the quality of the application.

Meta argued that FTC lives in the past and overcome the continuous importance of friends and family’s participation in its applications. However, the company has realized that some users still want to use its products to communicate with the people who know them in real life, which led them to launch “OG Facebook”, which allows users to scroll through a summary of their mutual connections exclusively, and avoid what has become the main Facebook experience in 2025 of the mostly recommended posts. Facebook Tom Tom Alison has witnessed that in the main summary, the user may have to scroll throughout the day to see all publications from their friends, as the “basic experience” has moved away from this type of content.

Judge Boasberg will decide whether the experience of communicating with friends on social media is still important enough to be dead in the market. to reject A dead attempt to obtain an early judgment In her favor, saying it is Unprepared yet. If he stands beside FTC, the government is likely to ask him to think about tearing the applications purchased to expand its empire.

Mita says this would suffocate the exact type of innovation that the Federal Trade Committee claims to promote. “Six weeks later, they tried to present their case to retract the acquisitions that were conducted more than a decade ago and showed that there is no truly final deal, and the only thing that FTC showed is the dynamic, excessive competitiveness of the past, the present and the future in the technology industry.” “Meta is a proud American success story, and we look forward to continuing innovation and serving people and companies who love our services.”