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Did WhatsApp really need Meta?

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WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton testified in the FTC antitrust case against Meta .

Acton was the second app founder to testify in the case, after Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom delivered blistering testimony against Meta last week .

The FTC has argued that WhatsApp could have succeeded on its own or with a different parent company.

But Acton reaffirmed that he and cofounder Jan Koum had absolutely no interest in building social features into WhatsApp .

Meta successfully pressured WhatsApp to change its privacy policy and terms of service in 2016 so that Facebook could capitalize on user data for its ads product (unless WhatsApp users opted out). And it pushed for a business version of the app, something Acton said he was “adamantly against,” fearing it would dilute WhatsApp ’s end-to-end encryption. After Acton left, the product launched..

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