Meta’s antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals, hinges on unknowable alternate versions of Silicon Valley history. — VINCENT KILBRIDE/The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO: In 2012, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cut a US$1bil cheque to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had lost his marbles.
“A billion dollars of money?” joked Jon Stewart, then host of The Daily Show. “For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?”
