guac: "New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/phhhoto-sues-meta-facebook-antitrust/"

New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition techcrunch.com/2021/...

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WordPress 622

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Friday November 5th, 2021

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Taylor Hatmaker

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A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a competing product and ultimately killing its business. The app, Phhhoto, launched in 2014, inviting users to create and share short GIF-like videos. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the same functionality was […]