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In
a court document filed with U.S. District Court Northern
District Of California on Friday, the FTC listed 18 witnesses it
plans to question, including Zuckerberg, Within CEO Chris Milk
and Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth.
They were also on a list of witnesses submitted on Friday by
defendants Meta and Within.
In addition to defending the Within acquisition, Zuckerberg is
expected to be questioned about the Facebook-parent's strategy
for its VR business, as well as the company's plans to support
third-party developers, according to the court document.
The FTC had filed a lawsuit in July saying that Meta's
acquisition of Within would "tend to create a monopoly" in the
market for VR-dedicated fitness apps.
The regulator argues that the proposed deal would "substantially
lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly" in that market.
Meta, in court documents, has argued that "the FTC's conclusory,
speculative, and contradictory allegations do not plausibly
plead any facts to establish that any supposed market for VR
Deliberate Fitness apps is 'oligopolistic' as to either behavior
or structure."
Facebook agreed to buy Within in October 2021 for an undisclosed
sum.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
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