New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition | TechCrunch
A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a
Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims
The founders of the photo-looping app Phhhoto say Facebook strung them along with the promise of a partnership that never materialized.
The investors of Phhhoto accuse Meta inc over antitrust allegations.
The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.
In 2014, Champ Bennett, Omar Elsayed, and Russell Armand founded Phhhoto, which allowed users to take and post a short bust of photos that looped, similar to a GIF.
The Phhhoto founders said in the suit, which Insider reviewed, that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was an early user of their app, having downloaded it and posted on it in August 2014. The lawsuit said other Facebook executives downloaded the app as well.