Engadget -
22 Apr 2025 22:21

Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, but tensions between Mark Zuckerberg and the app's founders persisted for years afterward. On Tuesday, Instagram's former CEO and cofounder Kevin Systrom took the stand in Meta's antitrust trial in Washington D.C and offered a firsthand account of how Zuckerberg viewed the photo-sharing app as a "threat" to Facebook. Systrom, who ran Instagram until 2018, said that Zuckerberg slowed hiring and other investments into Instagram despite its succes...
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