At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said on Tuesday that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because it was difficult to build new apps and dodged questions about whether he was trying to snuff out competitive threats to his company. “Building a new … Read more

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago … Read more