With the first week of Meta's antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta's internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant. In emails from 2022, Meta executives mulled different visions for Facebook's future to boost its success, acknowledging that its cultural relevance was decreasing. Fast-forward to 2025, and Meta is still grappling with this issue. Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's Q4 earnings call in January that the company wants to restore Facebook's cultural relevance this year with a return to 'OG Facebook.' Part of its solution for this problem is the recent launch of a revamped Friends tab. In a series of messages from April 2022 that were shared as evidence during the trial, Zuckerberg discussed concerns about Facebook's 'Friends' structure and format being outdated as every other major platform focused on 'Following.' Aisha is a consumer news reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining the...
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