WASHINGTON—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social media giant Meta Platforms, testified in federal court on April 14 as part of a trial in which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attempted to convince a judge that his company violated antitrust law.
Zuckerberg appeared at the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse in Washington after opening arguments in which FTC attorney Daniel Matheson accused the company of engaging in anticompetitive conduct that harmed consumers. It’s part of a longstanding lawsuit that the federal government brought against the company during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Zuckerberg fielded questions about internal and external communications involving Zuckerberg and his vision for the company. Toward the end of the trial’s first day, on April 14, Matheson probed Zuckerberg’s memory of communications that he sent leading up to Meta’s buying Instagram in 2012 and how it handled a competitor photos app that it was developing….