Mark Zuckerberg has known for years that this week could come.
In court on Tuesday, Federal Trade Commission attorney Daniel Matheson asked the Meta CEO to explain an email he sent executives in 2018 warning of “a non-trivial chance that we will be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp in the next 5-10 years anyways.”
“I just wanted to be mindful that we should have a strategy that is creating the most value for the people we’re trying to serve, taking into account the direction that the politics seemed to be going at that time,” Zuckerberg responded.