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Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Meta. <\/p>\n

During a heated cross-examination of the FTC’s key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators<\/a> on an antitrust probe of the company back in 2019. The pitch deck for the probe that was shown in court included \u00ab\u00a0public recognition\u00a0\u00bb of the company’s aggressive acquisition strategy from two reporters: Kara Swisher, who currently hosts two podcasts for The<\/em> Verge’s<\/em> parent company, Vox Media, and Om Malik, the founder of the early tech blog GigaOm who is now a venture capitalist.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to undercut Hemphill’s credibility, Hansen caught Swisher and Malik in the crossfire. He called Malik a \u00ab\u00a0failed blogger\u00a0\u00bb with an axe to grind against Meta. He then suggested that Swisher, whom he referred to as a Vanity Fair <\/em>columnist (she last wrote for the site in 2015<\/a>), was similarly biased against the company. In court, he projected a headline<\/a> about her recently calling Mark Zuckerberg a \u00ab\u00a0small little \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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