Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial

The tension that has long ago between the Silicon Valley and the press that covers it on the surface during the anti -monopoly trial affiliated with the Federal Trade Committee against Meta.

During a hot interrogation process for the main economic experts of the Federal Trade Committee, Scott Heimville, the main lawyer in Meta, Mark Hansen, indicated that Himville joined the founder of Facebook Chris Hughes, and former Biden Tim Woo, in general guidelines in the field of counseling in the field of anti -friction in 2019. Representative: Cara Swisser, who is currently hosting Two podcasts l the Verg The parent company, Vox Media, and OM Malik, founder of the Gigaom Early Technology Blog that is now project capitalism.

In an attempt to undermine the reliability of Hemphill, Hansen and Malik caught up in Crossfire. Malik described as a “failed blogger” with a grinding ax against Mita. Then he suggested that Swisher, whom he referred to as Bassem Vanity Fair The column writer (I wrote the last time on the site in 2015), was similarly biased against the company. In the court, she was heading on her recent contact, Mark Zuckerberg, as a “small creature with a volatile spirit.”

Hansen was also martyred from the 2019 stadium group in court mail A story to support that Facebook should be investigated as a monopoly. Hansen’s Meta asked if hemphill has agreed to that.New York Post It is a scandal paper, “he answered that” he had no point in one way or another. “Hansen showed the evil mail The title of the first page, “The body without a head in a naked bar”, to clarify its point of view.

The Stock Exchange has returned to tensions for years between the press and Tech Titans. After a relatively positive coverage experience during the early days, Facebook and Facebook and a handful of startups have grown to become the world’s largest platform. Along the way, they increased decisive coverage for their work.

Malik and Sagers have already criticized dead and its executives. In 2016, she criticized the owner of Facebook intentions to provide free access to its applications and others in India, after a member of the board of directors, Mark Andrin, blamed the local resistance of the program for “anti -colonialism” in a later tweet. Malik wrote at that time: “I am skeptical of any profitable company that argues in its good intentions and free gifts.”

Tuesday’s exchange was not the first time that Meta has made a finger to the media while trying. When discussing the major scandals such as Cambridge Analytica from the witness platform, the company’s leaders have blogs in the user’s morale to the interest of negative media and witnessed that Meta services did not witness similar declines in participation.

FTC argued that this fact is a sign of monopoly because people cannot leave Facebook and Instagram without vibrant alternatives. The judge will eventually decide whether this is true or not. Meanwhile, Meta’s grudges with the press are fully displayed.