Meta chief Zuckerberg ‘considered spinning off Instagram over antitrust worries’

Mark Zuckerberg (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown on the second say of a trial alleging the tech giant illegally monopolised the social media market.

In the 2018 email, Mr Zuckerberg wrote that he was beginning to wonder if “spinning Instagram out” would be the only way to accomplish important goals.