How do you buy off a multi-billionaire? Answer: you don’t, a lesson that one of the richest men in the world just learned — the hard way. So says the Wall Street Journal, anyway. In an exclusive report on Mark Zuckerberg’s alleged strategy to avoid an antitrust trial for Meta, a story unfolds about straight-out...
Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco Reuters A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday. The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly. The FTC...