Mary-Ann Russon :verified:<p>Back on the telly last night on @trtworld discussing the US Meta anti-trust trial 🎤📹</p><p>I think it’s possible that the FTC will reach a settlement with Meta, if they have buttered up President Trump enough. However, it could go the other way… 🤷🏻♀️</p><p>WhatsApp makes up only a tiny amount of Meta’s revenues but it has the highest amount of daily active users. </p><p>And Instagram contributes 50% of Meta’s revenues in the US, as well as generating more revenue per user than any other social media platform in the world 💰</p><p>So there is a lot of interest 👀 in whether Meta will be forced to sell off its assets or not, from its competitors and the tech industry as a whole, which fears that if Meta is broken up, it will set a precedent preventing large tech firms from acquiring start-ups.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FTC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/technologynews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technologynews</span></a></p>