Facebook’s Streaming Service ‘Watch’ Was Allegedly Killed to Sell Netflix Ads

Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was kneecapped starting in 2018 to protect Zuckerberg’s advertising relationship with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Making the Facebook Papers Public “For nearly a decade, Netflix and Facebook … Read more