The long -term tension between the Silicon Valley and the Press has been surfaced during a trial of the Federal Trade Commission’s dissent against Meta.
During a hot scrutiny of FTC’s key economist, Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hanson, Scott Hamfal, Hamfal joined Facebook’s co -founder of Facebook by an anti -strategy of the company by the company’s anti -strategy in 2019. Reporters: Cara Swiss, who currently host two podcasts In -the -the Parent Company, Vox Media, and Om Malik, the founder of the early Tech Blog Gigom, who is now a venture capital.
In an attempt to reduce Hamfal’s reputation, Hanson caught Sushir and Malik in a crossfire. He called the owner a “failed blogger” with an ax to grind against the meta. Then he suggested that the swicer, whom he had said Vanity festival The columnist (he last wrote for this site in 2015), as well as biased against the company. In court, he recently presented a headline about Mark Zuckerberg about “a small small creature in which a sharp spirit soul”.
The 2019 pitch deck shown in court by Hanson also cited one Post The story of supporting that Facebook should be investigated as a monopoly. Hensen of Meta asked if Hamfl had agreed to it “New York Post There is a scandal sheet, “to which he replied that he had one way or another. “Hanson showed the infamous Post The front page heading, “unconscious body in the unconscious body,” to make your word.
The exchange reproduced the old tensions between the Press and the Titans. After experiencing a relatively positive positive coverage during the early, passionate days of the Silicon Valley, Facebook and a handful of startups became the world’s largest platform. On the way, they have worked on rapid critical coverage of their businesses.
The country and the swicer have really criticized both Meta and its executives. In 2016, the country criticized Facebook’s intentions for offering free access to its apps and other people in India, when board member Mark Andersian blamed the local resistance to the program on the “colonial system” in a later tweet deleted. Malik wrote at the time, “I suspect any lucrative company that he is discussing his good intentions and his free gifts.”
This was not the first time that Meta had identified the finger on the media during the trial
Tuesday’s exchange was not the first time that Meta identified the finger on the media during the trial. When discussing major scams like Cambridge Analytica from the Witness Stand, the company’s leaders have put the consumer’s depression in the media and has testified that Meta’s services have not seen a decline in the comparison.
The FTC has argued that this is a sign of the power of monopoly because people cannot leave Facebook and Instagram without a viable alternative. A judge will eventually decide whether this is true or not. In the meantime, the Meta’s grief with the press is on a complete display.
