Meta’s Antitrest Trial, Mark Zuckerberg, serial witness to re -test

Seven years ago, Meta Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Meta, testified for the first time in the Congress. After a two-week boot camp by his lawyers, he answered questions in three back-to-back-to-back hearing in two days to prepare it.

40 -year -old Mr. Zuckerberg has practiced even more since then. He appeared before the Congress eight times and testified in court at least twice, more than that of any of his colleagues among the biggest technical companies. He has defended his company, earlier known as Facebook, such as on issues such as privacy, child safety and disruption.

In the beginning of Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg will again take the hot seat, this time accusing Meta of breaking the antitrust law as a marquee witness in the Landmark case of the Federal Trade Commission. Regulators filed a case against the company in the US District Court for Colombia district on their acquisition Instagram And WhatsApp said it uses a “purchase-or-mercury strategy” to maintain monopoly on social media.

As a serial witness, Mr. Zuckerberg’s turn has become a powerful symbol of the growing frustration of Washington with power organized by Silicon Valley, which promotes efforts to curb the technical industry. Under President Trump, Tech Chief Executive Officers have expected the administration that the regulator would take a soft hand, but so far his appointment has indicated a continuous investigation.

On Capital Hill, MPs attended Mr. Zuckerberg, accused of lying and having personal responsibility for various social losses. Legal experts said that the meta can be defended in the antitrust trial while defending the meta during the expected seven hours testimony to the previous difficult question.

Associate Dean Adam Sterling at Stanford Law School said, “He looks more aware of the audience than his earlier years he is speaking compared to his first years.” “Whether it is a statement or in front of the lawsuit or the Senate, he can actually create a message to its recipients.”

Meta and FTC refused to comment.

It is far away from the beginning of Mr. Zuckerberg in the Harvard Dom Room 21 years ago. After the creation of “Facebook”, he got out of school and went to Silicon Valley to create a social network. His successes and failures were publicly investigated.

In 2021, he changed the name of the company’s meta, which tries to shed some of the company’s goods. He has recently tried to convince Mr. Trump to deal with the President and his colleagues, including visiting the White House in this month.

The government’s investigation and legal challenges have not wounded permanent wounds on the company. The price of Meta’s stock has exceeded double since Mr. Zuckerberg’s first presence in Congress.

Mr. Zuckerberg is likely to face more terrible times at the stand in the antitrust trial, said by legal experts. There is grandeur by MPs at the Congress hearing, and they are limited to a few minutes. FTC lawyers planned to grill Mr. Zuckerberg for hours. He also has a contingent of emails and other communications and plans him to ask them to protect the documents that they say that their company’s sick intentions prove.

“A test is a separate animal because the lawyer will be opposed, ask better questions and focus on their case,” said Nu Waxler, a former policy officer for Meta and Four Corner Public Affairs.

In 2017, Mr. Zuckerberg testified in Dallas in a trial over intellectual property theft by a video game company, Zenimax Media. He also testified in San Jose, California, to block the acquisition of Meta’s virtual reality company during an FTC test in 2023.

This time, FTC Judge James E. Asking Boseburg is to find Meta guilty of antitrust violations, so KT Harabath, former Meta Public Policy Director and Chief Executive Officer of Anchor Change, said, “There is a lot of stake”.

For the first half of the history of Meta, Mr. Zuckerberg moved away from public demonstrations. In 2010, he said in an interview at a technology conference, struggling to answer questions about privacy as sweat pearls participated on his face.

Most of his public witnesses have come to the Congress.

Mr. Zuckerberg faced a huge backlash from Washington MPs after the 2016 presidential election. Reports were revealed that Facebook had accessed the People’s social networking data without Cambridge Analytica, a political counseling firm, without their consent.

According to Meta employees familiar with briefing, Mr. Zuckerberg attended the packed hearing in the Congress in April 2018. His lawyers gave him coaching to remain calm and postpone answers to difficult questions.

“My team will come back to you,” he said in the hearing several times.

Next year, Mr. Zuckerberg faced questions from the House Financial Services Committee for a cryptocurrency for a cryptocurrency on safety and safety of the company’s schemes.

New York’s Democrat Alexandria Osasio-Coortage asked Mr. Zuckerberg about wrong information in political advertisements and interrupted them. He once won and struggled to find answers several times.

California’s representative Maxin Waters, then the Democratic Chairman of the committee, accused Mr. Zuckerberg of having the fate of the company ahead of his users.

“You are ready to step on anyone – your opponent, women and colors, even our democracy,” said Ms. Waters.

“I think I am not an ideal messenger for it right now,” Mr. Zuckerberg replied. “We definitely have to work to create faith.”

Mr. Zuckerberg performed better in his next two appearances, showing more polish and control over their answers. He and the heads of Apple, Amazon and Google were called during the epidemic for a house judicial committee on the power of large tech in 2020. In 2021, Mr. Zuckerberg spoke to a house committee about disintegration from a house committee.

Last year, Missouri’s Republican Senator Josh Halee demanded during a child safety hearing that Mr. Zuckerberg apologizes to the parents who had lost their children for threatening and other losses that Facebook and Instagram were accused of fueling.

“I am sorry for everything you have done through all of you,” Mr. Zuckerberg told the parents that those who participated. “Nobody should go through things that your families suffer.”

Mr. Haley said that it was important to justify Meta and Mr. Zuckerberg.

“This was my whole goal, to force a moment of truth,” Mr. Hale said in an interview. “But the truth is also that he keeps on doing the right sailing and will do this until the testing from the Congress and the next week does not have real results.”