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"Its own data bore this out: only 7 percent of time spent on Instagram and 17 percent on Facebook involved consuming content from friends or followed accounts. The overwhelming remainder was spent watching video [...] recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta had developed as a “direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise” (Meta Platforms, Inc., 2025). 🧵
🧵 What Meta’s lawyers presented as a defense of their market position was, inadvertently, a precise diagnosis of a broader structural transformation: the company that invented the social network had, by its own account, ceased to operate one."
@fuzzyleapfrog
Seems like a ridiculous argument, though. If I control 100% of market A and 10% of market B and market B is more important to my business, I'm still a monopoly in market A.
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