In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...

For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta’s control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the ...

While this case appears centered on U.S. competition policy, the consequences of a potential WhatsApp divestiture stretch far beyond American borders. The FTC’s argument centers on Meta’s ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of ...

About two years later, the company snatched up the chat tool WhatsApp for roughly $22 billion. The FTC, one of the nation’s antitrust enforcement agencies, wants Judge James Boasberg to hold the ...

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarize unread messages in both one-on-one and ...

The trial, which starts on Monday, could force Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the most widely used social media platforms in the world. Newsweek has contacted Meta and the FTC for ...

Meta is accused of creating an illegal social networking monopoly thanks to its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram more than a decade ago.

Nevertheless, during cross-examination by the FTC, Acton acknowledged that WhatsApp had already introduced social features before the acquisition, including group messaging, video sharing ...

An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of ...