Oyogist has learned the founders of Phhhoto, a popular photo sharing App has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta.
The suit had alleged that Facebook “Cloned” and then crushed the app.
A meta spokesperson, Joe Osborne, while reacting to the recent claims said: “This suit is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously.”
The suit also stated that Bryan Hurren, Facebook’s strategic-partnerships manager, got in touch with Phhhoto in February 2015 about a potential partnership that would integrate Phhhoto into Facebook Messenger.
Hurren said in an email that Phhhoto was “really awesome
Phhhoto declined, but Facebook came up with a more lucrative deal, to integrate integrate the app into its News Feed – which the startup company agreed to.
Along the line, in March 2015, Instagram unexpectedly cut Phhhoto off from its “Find Friends” feature.
Hurren further explained that Instagram did so because it wss “upset that Phhhoto was growing in users through its relationship with Instagram,” according to his report in the suit.
