About a year before the Federal Trade Committee first It opened its investigation to combat monopoly In META acquisitions on Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extremist step of Instagram spinning as a separate company.”
In an e -mail for 2018 to its executives, Zuckerberg wrote that “while most companies resist separation, the history of companies is that most companies lead better after division.” The memorandum was presented in the court on Tuesday, when it witnessed the anti -monopoly case in FTC, where it is Meta Fight the government’s lawsuit This can dismantle.
Meta spent billions of dollars in getting Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. But by 2018, Zuckerberg felt that the changing policy could lead, as he wrote in the memo, “Not trivial opportunity we will have to get out of Instagram and possibly WhatsApp in the next five years.” His executive team has warned that “we should keep in mind that there is a real opportunity because all our work to build a family of applications we may not preserve.”
“It is not very difficult to imagine the increasing calls to dismantle technology companies, and the next Democratic President is taking measures to do so,” Zuckerberg said during President Donald Trump’s term during the term of President Donald Trump in his position. “At this point, we will face very great pressure, brand damage and distraction.”
Meta is now in the midst of the anti -monopoly experience as it defends FTC allegations that it illegally monopolizes a sub -group of the social media market through Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which seek the agency to relax. FTC charges Zuckerberg these purchases for potential competitors’ residents and enhance his company’s dominance. Matta argues that The issue is “in a state of war with facts and in war with law.”
Although Meta may fight the separation now, Zuckerberg was clearly thinking about the possibility of some time. He wrote in 2018: “I understand that the value of the work of the presence of Instagram and Facebook together, so I do not raise this lightly. I also do not suggest this is the possible result. But I don’t think it is just crazy as it might appear at the beginning.”
