“Club Atlético Boca Juniors deeply regrets the passing of Hugo Orlando Gatti, a longtime idol and multiple Boca Juniors champion,” the team said on its social media. “We are with his family and loved ones at this time.”
In his questioning of Zuckerberg, Matheson repeatedly brought up emails — many of them more than a decade old — written by Zuckerberg and his associates before and after the acquisition of Instagram.While acknowledging the documents, Zuckerberg has often sought to downplay the contents, saying he wrote them in the early stages of considering the acquisition and that what he wrote at the time didn’t capture the full scope of his interest in the company.
Matheson also brought up a February 2012 message in which Zuckerberg wrote to the former chief financial officer of Facebook that Instagram and Path, a social networking app, already had created meaningful networks that could be “very disruptive to us.”Zuckerberg testified that the message was written in the context of a broad discussion about whether they should buy companies to accelerate their own developments.Zuckerberg also testified that buying the company, taking it off the market and building their own version of it was “a reasonable thing to do.”
Later Tuesday, Mark Hansen, an attorney for Meta, began his questioning of Zuckerberg. Hansen, in his opening statements Monday, emphasized that Meta’s services are free and that the company, far from holding a monopoly, actually has a lot of competition. He made a point of bringing up those issues in just over an hour of questioning Zuckerberg, with more expected to come Wednesday.“It’s very competitive,” Zuckerberg said, noting that charging for using services like Facebook would likely drive users away, since similar services are widely available elsewhere.
The trial is one of the first big tests of President Donald Trump’s FTC’s ability to challenge Big Tech. The lawsuit was filed against Meta — then called Facebook — in 2020, during Trump’s first term. It claims the company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to squash competition and establish an illegal monopoly in the social media market.
Facebook bought Instagram — which was a photo-sharing app with no ads — for $1 billion in 2012., a welcoming port for immigrants from across the globe, hit the hard reality of state budgeting this spring.
The Democrat is a leading critic of President Donald Trump’s administration, especially its immigration policies. But facing a budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, Pritzker’s proposed $55.2 billion fiscal plan would cut part of a four-year-old program providing health coverage to some adults regardless of immigration status. Illinois is one of seven states and the District of Columbia to offer such a program.California, which last year one-upped Illinois by offering health care to all adult immigrants, has run into a similar revenue problem and
Rep. Barbara Hernandez, a suburban Chicago Democrat, said the program helps many families.“There’s a huge need in the undocumented community that cannot get health care otherwise,” she said.