{"id":27205,"date":"2025-04-17T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27205\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:52:14","slug":"google-apple-and-snap-arent-happy-about-metas-poorly-redacted-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27205\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Apple, and Snap aren\u2019t happy about Meta\u2019s poorly-redacted slides"},"content":{"rendered":"

During Meta\u2019s antitrust trial today<\/a>, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain<\/a> easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors \u201cegregious,\u201d with Apple\u2019s representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with its internal information in the future. Google\u2019s attorney also blamed Meta for jeopardizing the search giant\u2019s data with the mistake.<\/p>\n

Details about the attorneys\u2019 comments come from The Verge\u2019s Lauren Feiner<\/a>, who is currently in the courtroom where proceedings are taking place today. Apple, Google, and Meta did not immediately respond to The Verge\u2019s request for comment. Snap declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Snap\u2019s attorney maligned Meta\u2019s \u201ccavalier approach and casual disregard\u201d of other companies swept into the case, and wondered if \u201cMeta would have applied meaningful redactions if it were its own information that was at stake.\u201d Meta attorney Mark Hansen suggested using a third party that\u2019s not involved in the trial team to work on redactions.<\/p>\n

Even prior to the discovery of the redactions issue, Snap had been upset about what it called confidential information being shared during opening statements. (The company didn\u2019t specify precisely which information it considered confidential.) Hansen said yesterday that he didn\u2019t believe he revealed anything confidential in the company\u2019s opening statements, an assessment Snap\u2019s attorney disagreed with. <\/p>\n

As for why Meta didn\u2019t let Snap know it would be including the information, Hansen said that he didn\u2019t want to give the company a heads up about what it\u2019s presenting at trial because \u201cvery clearly, Snap is working with the FTC. Snap is a major competitor.\u201d <\/p>\n

Though clearly redacted for a reason, as they shared information from inside other companies that wasn\u2019t intended for public viewing, the unredacted documents didn\u2019t reveal particularly juicy information. One segment mentioned that iPhone users tend to prefer Apple\u2019s own Messages app to those of Meta and Snap, while another slide, labeled \u201cSnapchat in 2020: Competitors Are Succeeding and Not Just Meta Apps,\u201d noted that its competitors, including Meta\u2019s apps and TikTok, were \u201cthriving.\u201d <\/p>\n

To Snap and the other companies, how juicy the details were isn\u2019t the point. Snap\u2019s attorney accused Meta\u2019s lead attorney of openly referencing Snap\u2019s competitive assessments that should have been private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Meta\u2019s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7155,1662,51,867,2725,598,12,46,285,2443,16497,326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-law","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-policy","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-snapchat","19":"tag-tech","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114352694492329097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}