INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future
in AI and insisting that evidence at trial would establish that platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and X are Meta's true rivals."More than 10
final," Meta's spokesperson said
"Regulators should be supporting American innovation rather than seeking to break up a great American company and further advantaging China
planning the first community portals, "it was so beautiful because we didn't think about bots and trolls
We didn't think about data mining and surveillance capitalism
We thought about making the world a more connected and holistic place."But those who became social media overlords found more money in
walled gardens and increasingly cut off attempts by outside developers to improve the biggest platforms' functionality or leverage their
platforms to compete for their users' attention
Born of this era, Weinstein expects that Zuckerberg, and therefore Meta, will always cling to its friends-and-family roots, no matter which
way Zuckerberg says the wind is blowing.Meta "is still entirely based on personal social networking," Weinstein told Ars.In a Newsweek
op-ed, Weinstein explained that he left MeWe in 2021 after "competition became impossible" with Meta
It was a time when MeWe faced backlash over lax content moderation, drawing comparisons between its service and right-wing apps like Gab or
Weinstein rejected those comparisons, seeing his platform as an ideal Facebook rival and remaining a board member through the app's more
recent shift to decentralization
Still defending MeWe's failed efforts to beat Facebook, he submitted hundreds of documents and was deposed in the monopoly trial, alleging
that Meta retaliated against MeWe as a privacy-focused rival that sought to woo users away by branding itself the "anti-Facebook."
