Could Zuckerberg Be Forced To Sell Instagram?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, the trial opened on a long awaited antitrust case that could see Meta forced to sell two of its social media sites Instagram and WhatsApp, after being accused of creating a monopoly. Adam speaks to the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring and Mark Scott of the Atlantic Council, asking, what does this court case tell us about the relationship between Trump and big tech? Also, why are we talking about Katy Perry going to space? Adam is joined by science journalist Jonathan Amos and Suzie Imber, Professor of space physics at the University of Leicester.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm back and thank you to James and everyone else who has kept the newscast studio nice and warm while I was away somewhere.
0:11.1	Simultaneously warm and cold, clues.
0:14.6	Anyway, I have two treats today from my return to the newscast studio.
0:18.2	One, I get to talk about my favourite pop star, Katie Perry, who's been
0:21.9	blasted into space today by Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon. And secondly, I get to press
0:28.2	the imaginary big red button that launches the latest iteration of the Newscast trademark
0:33.9	newsie titles. Here we go. Newscast.
0:37.7	Newscast from the BBC.
0:39.3	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:42.1	Did I say that?
0:43.5	I can't believe I said that.
0:45.0	Next question.
0:45.8	Have you said thank you once?
0:47.0	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan.
0:50.0	I don't think I'm being rude.
0:51.4	I like landscape.
0:52.5	Take me down to Downey Street.
0:55.8	Let's go have a tour.
0:56.5	Blimey.
1:01.2	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and shortly we will be talking about Katie Perry going into space.
1:05.2	But don't worry, it won't be all about pop stars. It will actually be about the business of space, which is very, very interesting, and there's a lot going on there. But first of all, talking of business, we are going to go to a
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