Mark Zuckerberg once thought of deleting everyone’s Facebook friends, court documents reveal

With Instagram taking over Facebook in the last few years as the go to social media platform for teenagers, it looks like the Meta CEO wanted to increase user engagement by deleting existing connections and rebuilding their network from scratch.

However, the idea soon was scrutinised by many including Facebook head Tom Alison, who responded to Zuckerberg, writing “I’m not sure Option #1 in your proposal (Double-down on Friending) would be viable given my understanding of how vital the friend use case is to IG.”

Reportedly, Meta boss also came up with an idea of shifting Facebook from a friend based model to a follower based model. While these proposals never saw the light of day, these internal emails give an insight of how Meta wants to stay relevant in the ever evolving digital world.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has been building up a case against Meta for the last few years. Filed in 2020 during Trump’s first term as the President, the FTC says Meta has been maintaining an illegal monopoly in the social media market.

In its complaint, FTC accused Facebook of actively neutralising “perceived competitive threats” and said that when Meta was “unable to maintain its monopoly by fairly competing, the company’s executives addressed the existential threat by buying up new innovators that were succeeding where Facebook failed.”

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