{"id":24497,"date":"2025-05-09T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-2006-zuckerberg-quote-at-the-center-of-metas-antitrust-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:12:56","slug":"the-2006-zuckerberg-quote-at-the-center-of-metas-antitrust-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-2006-zuckerberg-quote-at-the-center-of-metas-antitrust-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2006 Zuckerberg Quote at the Center of Meta\u2019s Antitrust Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In September 2006, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, described what made his social network special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFacebook is about real connections to actual friends,\u201d he wrote in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/256480419099100\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">company post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two decades later, that description is at the center of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/13\/technology\/meta-ftc-trial-whatsapp-instagram.html\" title=\"\">a landmark antitrust trial<\/a> against Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s social networking empire, now called Meta, and whether it illegally stifled competition. In essence, the trial has raised the question of whether social networking is simply about connections to friends and family, or whether it is something more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Federal Trade Commission, which is prosecuting the case, has tried to narrowly define social networking as a service that links friends and family. Under that definition, Meta would really compete only with Snap, the maker of Snapchat, which it dwarfs in size and users. But Meta has argued that all social media companies count as rivals, especially TikTok and YouTube, which would mean that competition was more abundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe friend part has gone down quite a bit,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/technology\/meta-antitrust-trial-mark-zuckerberg.html\" title=\"\">said in testimony at the trial last month<\/a>, downplaying his words from 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The opposing definitions of social media in the case \u2014 Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms \u2014 illustrate how much social networking has evolved over more than a decade and how slippery it has become to pin down. Meta has expanded far beyond Facebook\u2019s roots as a bulletin board for college students, and scores of newer companies have developed similar products, emulating popular features such as the \u201clike\u201d button and news feed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the first four weeks of the trial, a parade of social media executives from companies including Reddit, Pinterest and LinkedIn have done little to help clarify a social networking definition. They acknowledged that they all competed for the same users, but in many cases offered very different products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Defining where Meta fits into the social media landscape will be the first and most important decision for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-judge-boasberg-kavanaugh.html\" title=\"\">Judge James E. Boasberg<\/a> of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who is presiding over the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It will be \u201cno walk in the park,\u201d Judge Boasberg wrote in an opinion late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The case examines whether Meta\u2019s purchases of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/technology\/meta-trial-instagram-kevin-systrom.html\" title=\"\">Instagram in 2012<\/a> for $1 billion and WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion illegally quashed competition. Judge Boasberg\u2019s decision will have broad implications for the tech market as the industry faces a yearslong bipartisan push to curb Silicon Valley\u2019s power and grip over speech, entertainment, commerce and computing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If he sides with the government, which has said it seeks to break up Meta, the decision could deter the voracious appetites of the biggest tech companies to buy smaller rivals. That would shake up the start-up economy, where many founders rely on bigger players to acquire their companies for huge sums of money, allowing investors to cash out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is a significant case because the world we\u2019re in now has gotten a lot more complex, and so if the F.T.C. wins, there will likely be more aggressive antitrust enforcement,\u201d said Daniel Rubinfeld, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department who worked on the government\u2019s antitrust case against Microsoft more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In most antitrust cases, the competitive market is easier to define, legal experts said. Prices are used as the foundation to evaluate a company\u2019s power and effect on competition. That could include a merger or anticompetitive behavior that pushes up prices for airline tickets or home appliances, for example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But internet companies like Meta offer free services to consumers, turning its case into a novel legal debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his opening statements, Daniel Matheson, the government\u2019s lead lawyer in the case, accused Meta of being \u201ca monopolist of personal social networking services in the United States,\u201d with two competitors: Snap and the tiny app MeWe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Matheson argued that Meta\u2019s network of people who knew one another was key to the company\u2019s growth and that it attracted advertisers that were interested in users promoting goods to their close connections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta fired back, saying that it now primarily competed for the attention of users who scrolled through short-form videos on YouTube and TikTok. Its top litigator, Mark Hansen, said the company went into \u201ccrisis\u201d mode when TikTok became available in the United States in 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, one of Meta\u2019s lawyers asked Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, if the app was more like Facebook or TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019d put Instagram between the two, but much closer to TikTok,\u201d he said. Instagram began as an app to connect friends, he added, but users now turn to it much more for entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Clouding the picture, the parade of executives from other social media companies have done little to define the industry\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYouTube and Instagram are TikTok\u2019s most important competitors,\u201d according to an internal TikTok document from 2021 presented by Meta\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When asked about the rivalry, Adam Presser, TikTok\u2019s head of operations, undercut the idea by saying the apps function differently: \u201cI don\u2019t think of us as a social app.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">YouTube is mainly used for entertainment, and people rarely use the platform to share content or follow other users they know, said Aaron Filner, a senior director at the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When it comes to the social media site X, \u201cI would guess that more people these days think of it as a place to see what\u2019s new and what\u2019s happening in the world versus thinking of it as a place to share pictures and whatnot with friends and family,\u201d said Keith Coleman, the company\u2019s vice president of product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Legal experts said it was typical to squabble over market definitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1997, the F.T.C. successfully sued to block a merger of Staples and Office Depot, warning of concentration in the office supply store market. The companies had argued they competed against other retailers like Walmart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next year, the government accused Microsoft of squeezing competition by tying its internet browser to its popular Windows operating system. The government persuaded the judge to narrowly define the market in the case as personal computers that run on Intel chips, excluding Apple computers and hand-held devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe F.T.C. in the Meta case is taking a traditional approach to defining markets narrowly, but the challenge here is that the market feels different because it is digital and it makes sense that the competition is for eyeballs and attention,\u201d said John Newman, a professor of law at the University of Miami and a former<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>F.T.C. official who worked on the agency\u2019s case against Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Boasberg has given little indication of his thinking. Still, he has noted that the various social media apps seem to have many of the same features, asking if the way they are used is \u201cjust a difference in degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noted that texting had supplanted voice calls, something he described as \u201celderly communications.\u201d Younger users are even more facile in switching up platforms and technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAren\u2019t those norms changing all the time?\u201d Judge Boasberg, who doesn\u2019t use social media, asked an expert witness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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