Meta -CEO Zuckerberg thought of paying off in Instagram 2018: FTC take a look at

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Meta According to an e -e -mail, which was awarded the increasing threat of cartel disputes against Facebook in 2018 in the expressions of Instagram on Tuesday in a courtroom in Washington.

While Zuckerberg's second testimony to the METAS cartel process with the Federal Trade Commission, lawyers who represented the FTC were hired an email before May 2018, in which Zuckerberg apparently seemed to be commented on a separation of the photo sharing app, which his company bought for 1 billion in 2012.

“And I start to ask myself whether spinning in Instagram is out of the only structure that achieves a number of important goals,” wrote Zuckerberg in the e -mail. “If the views of breaking the large technology companies are growing, there is a non-trivial chance that we will be forced in the next 5-10 years anyway, to split up Instagram and maybe WhatsApp. This is another factor that we should consider.”

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012, when the photo app had 13 employees and Zuckerberg was ready to record its company with the largest technical IPO during the time. The purchase of the takeover of WhatsApp from Instagram and 2014 for $ 19 billion is the focus of the blockbuster -antitrust attempt, which started on Monday and that could take weeks.

The FTC claims that Meta monopolized and argued the market for social networks that the company could not have completed these acquisitions. The agency tries to split the Meta apps as a possible means.

Meta denies the accusations of the FTC and claims that the regulatory authority incorrectly characterizes the competitive landscape and a number of competitors such as TikKOK and not recognized Apple Imessage and not just other apps like Snapchat. At the beginning of the test version, the FTC also presented an e -mail in October 2013, in which Zuckerberg announced other Facebook managers Snapping CEO Evan Spiegel rejected its 6 -billion dollar offer for buying Snapchat.

Zuckerberg also said in the 2018 email that the best estimates of the company, if Instagram had remained independent, probably the size of Twitter or Snapchat with 300 to 400 million card instead of 1 billion. “The card is short for monthly active people.

REGARD: Mark Zuckerberg takes the witness stand on the first day of the cartel process.