In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fretted about the potential that the company’s Instagram acquisition may cannibalize Facebook. Were that to happen,

: The FTC presented a document in the Meta antitrust trial showing that CEO Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of spinning off Instagram in 2018. In a memo to top Meta executives in May of that year, Zuckerberg wrote that he was worried “we are approaching our family strategy incorrectly - especially around Instagram.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions about his intentions in acquiring Instagram on the first day of a historic antitrust trial.