The antitrust trial is years in the making, with the FTC originally opening the investigation in 2019 during the first Trump administration. Already, the trial has produced revelations about Meta's history and view of the social media industry as a whole. Let's take a look at the standout revelations from the Meta-FTC antitrust trial so far.

The redactions in Meta’s document are just easy-to-remove layers. A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge has discovered.