< IMG LOADING = "Lazy" SRSC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Medium/2025-04/META.JPG ? Itok = _7me7vrt" Width = "969" Height = "545" Alt = "Meta in legal" Image-Style-Max-1300x1300 "SRC ="/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Max_1300x1300/Public/2025-04/Meta.jpg ? Itok = 1kmr2mtw "/> FS IA < P > & nbsp; trump or not, Mark Zuckerberg and his group will have to confront the judges. Meta’s trial opened on Monday April 14 in Washington. The United States accuses the social media giant of having acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to stifle competition. The Consumer Protection Agency (FTC) must still demonstrate that this monopoly leads to degraded use for users, forced to tolerate “too many advertisements and steep changes”. In this regard, the Facebook parent company intends to train its AI using the public data of its users of the European Union (EU). & Amp; nbsp;
< P >& nbsp; shortly after Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg multiplied the efforts to, at first, calm his stormy relationship with the American president, and attract his good graces in a second step. As of December, Meta donated a million dollars to the inauguration fund of the New York businessman. This gift came two weeks after a dinner between the two men in the property of Donald Trump of Mar-A-Lago, during which the patron of Meta expressed his intention to “support” him and “help him to implement national reforms”. & Amp; nbsp; nbsp;
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< P >A few weeks later, Mark Zuckerberg announced a complete turnaround of his moderation policy on his social networks, by getting rid of the Fact-Checkers to adopt X moderation strategy, introduced by its owner Elon Musk. A measure officially entered into force last week in the United States. & nbsp;< P > end January, & nbsp; The Californian company had agreed to pay $ 25 million in compensation to Donald Trump to end prosecution that the latter had initiated following the suspension of his accounts in 2021, after the assault on Capitole. & Amp; nbsp;
< P > & nbsp; < P > so much efforts which do not seem to have been enough to attract the good graces of the American president. At least, not enough to suspend or have a lawsuit canceled through an amicable settlement with justice. Recently again, Mark Zuckerberg went to the White House several times to convince the new administration. & Amp; nbsp; < P >& nbsp; the “baron of data” was mainly worried about the trial which could lead to the dismantling of his group. “I would be very surprised that such a thing happens,” said Andrew Ferguson, president of the consumer protection agency, the FTC. & Amp; nbsp; < P > & nbsp; according to the complaint filed, five years ago, that is to say under the first Trump government, Meta is accused of having bought Instagum and WhatsApp to stifle the competitors and to have abused its dominant position. & Amp; nbsp; & nbsp; < P >& nbsp; the accusation must prove, during the next few weeks of the trial, that the Californian company abused its dominant position during the acquisition of Instagram in 2012, for a billion dollars, and WhatsApp in 2014, for 19 billion. “For more than a decade, Meta maintained in the United States a monopoly on personal social media services,” said the FTC, which differentiates Tiktok and YouTube from the Meta subsidiaries. What the lawyers of this group reject. “The fact that these services are different by certain aspects of the Meta applications only prove that these close competitors innovate with tools and functionalities to gain in minutes of user attention”, they argue. & Amp; nbsp;< p > & nbsp; Historical dismantling which would oblige Facebook's parent company to separate from Instagram and WhatsApp. & nbsp;
< P >< Strong > Users' data to train IA < Strong > & nbsp; < P >& nbsp; the FTC also wants to proof of the emails of Mark Zuckerberg in which he was worried about the competition, before these takeover. “The potential impact of Instagram is really scary and that is why we should consider paying a lot of money,” he wrote. The accusation must thus prove that Meta's monopoly “results in degraded use for users”, faced with “too many abrupt advertisements”. & Amp; nbsp; nbsp;< p > One of these changes comes precisely this Monday, the day of the opening of the trial. The Californian company has announced its decision to cause AI using public data from its users in the European Union (EU). The latter will be informed soon by a notification. “People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to oppose that their data is used for training,” said Meta. & Amp; nbsp;
< P >The group's artificial intelligence could both train on queries and questions sent to the Meta AI conversational chatbot, as well as publications and public comments from users. The Menlo Park firm specifies that this measure should not concern those under 18, neither the private messages of users, minors or adults. & Amp; nbsp; nbsp;< p > meta ai was deployed at the end of March, almost a year after launch in the United States. A delay which is explained by the entry into force of new European regulations which on new technologies, in addition to those existing such as the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD). & Amp; nbsp;
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