Mark Zuckerberg testified that China-owned TikTok was a “highly urgent” competitive threat to Meta – as he looked to derail the FTC’s bid to break up the owner of Facebook and Instagram at a landmark antitrust trial in Washington.

Chairman Andrew Ferguson weighed in on the agency’s antitrust case against social media giant Meta Platforms in a Monday appearance on “Mornings with Maria."

Meta had its first day in court against the Federal Trade Commission in what will be the second-largest antitrust trial of the decade. At stake is Meta’s ownership of both Instagram and WhatsApp, and the viability of Mark Zuckerberg’s company as traditional social media enters the era of AI.