What Next: TBD | The U.S. vs Meta

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, the FTC and Meta began a trial to determine if—by adding Instagram and WhatsApp to its portfolio with Facebook over a decade ago—the company became a monopoly in social media. If Meta loses, it could be forced to split up, losing Instagram—and its substantial ad revenue. Guest: Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. Service Now puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier. All built into a single platform you can use right now.
0:23.4	That's why the world works with ServiceNow.
0:26.6	Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.
0:31.3	Race the rudder.
0:32.8	Raise the sails.
0:33.9	Raise the sales.
0:35.2	Captain, an unidentified chip approaching.
0:37.3	Over. Roger approaching. Over.
0:37.9	Roger that. Wait. Is that an enterprise sales solution?
0:43.4	Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors.
0:47.2	With LinkedIn ads, you can target the right people by industry, job title and more.
0:51.5	To get £100 off your first campaign, go to LinkedIn.com slash lead to claim your credit.
0:56.9	That's LinkedIn.com slash lead.
0:59.1	Terms and conditions apply.
1:05.1	All right, let's talk more about that Facebook deal to buy Instagram.
1:08.8	Instagram, for those of you who may not know,
1:10.6	is a photo sharing app, kind of a postcard type situation.
1:14.5	Back in 2012, Facebook, now called Meta, bought Instagram for approximately $1 billion.
1:22.3	It was not that much of a surprise because Facebook was struggling.
1:26.9	Peresh DeVay is a senior writer at Wired.
1:29.8	They were trying to create sort of photo sharing tools.
1:32.7	They were trying to enter the mobile era.
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