Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom has accused Mark Zuckerberg of suppressing his platform's growth due to the Meta CEO's allegiances to Facebook. During the Meta monopoly trial, Mr Systrom testified that Mr Zuckerberg favoured Facebook so much that he began starving Instagram of critical resources,

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that his fledgling photo-sharing app could have succeeded without being acquired by Meta Platforms Inc., and that eventually Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg treated Instagram’s growth as a “threat” and starved it of resources.