Instagram co -founder on Mark Zuckerberg witnesses blocking resources

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The co -founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom Mark Zuckerberg was suffocated by the application sharing application in a certificate that supports anti -monopoly organizers in a monopoly experience that can lead to dead disintegration.

Systrom, the main witness called by the US Federal Trade Committee, told a federal court in Washington that Meta failed to provide sufficient resources to achieve Instagram growth potential after obtaining it in 2012 for a billion dollars.

Accusations were struck at the heart of the case against the Anti -Monopoly Agency, which was accused Dead From building and retaining a Monopoly Partially by acquiring the competitor Instagram.

FTC Meta later claims the application’s growth to avoid “network collapse” on Facebook, according to A. Secret email Zuckerberg wrote in 2018 and was presented to the court.

Systrom said that Zuckerberg believed that Instagram was “hurting Facebook growth” was a “great driving force” behind Meta CEO in 2018 to cut a number of tools that META provides at first after seizing Instagram assistance to grow.

He added: “There was a dramatic softness in terms of (Facebook’s) Us US Daily Active WERVES and everyone had their theories of why.” “Mark Zuckerberg and (CEO), Chris Cox, believes that the growth of Instagram has greatly contributed to the smoothness.”

Systrom told the Meta Court that failed to provide employees who are believed to be necessary to develop Instagram was “one of the reasons” he left in 2018.

FTC lawyer presented an e -mail written by Systrom in 2017 about Meta Meta, which was devoted to promoting video development. “We got zero from 300 gradual video heads and it is an unacceptable and degrading result,” he wrote.

Meta said on Tuesday: “Documents outside the context and years on the acquisitions that were reviewed by FTC more than a decade will not obscure the competition facts we face or overcome the weak FTC.”

Meta’s lawyer began interrogating Systrom on Tuesday afternoon, under the pretext Social media The company helped pay the Instagram growth, which had only 13 employees and not revenues when obtaining it.

Systrom resigned alongside the other Instagram co -founder Mike Crager in September 2018, which increased frustrated by Zuckerberg’s decision to integrate its systems with Facebook and WhatsApp systems into a campaign to create a “family of applications”, according to reports at that time.

Their exits were followed in 2017 and early 2018 from the founders of WhatsApp, Jean Com and Brian Acton, who clashed with Zuckerberg on privacy and data protection in the aftermath Cambridge analytical scandal. The WhatsApp acquisition of 19 billion dollars in 2014 is also undergoing the FTC case.

Zuckerberg, who witnessed last week, argued that Instagram, as well as WhatsApp, was obtained to accelerate its growth – pointing to the dramatic jump of users after deals.

But Systrom told the Instagram court to continue if the application remained independent, adding, “The first slowdown that we had perhaps a year on Facebook.”

Systrom suggested tense relationships with Zuckerberg may have contributed to the withdrawal of Instagram Meta resources. “Each company needs to make bodies, but …

He said that Meta coach was always happy with the presence of Instagram in the family because he was growing very quickly.

According to an e -mail for the year 2018 submitted to the court last week, Zuckerberg thought of spinning about Instagram – a step he wrote, as he wrote, can help keep Systrom and “immediately stop artificially on Instagram in a way that undermines Facebook networks.”