Mark Zuckerberg floated the possibility of spinning off Instagram from his social media empire amid rising regulatory scrutiny of the technology sector and an increasing concern that the photo sharing app was “cannibalizing” the success of Facebook.

The Federal Trade Commission says Meta has monopolized the social-media market—and should be broken up.

Case from Federal Trade Commission will probe if Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp allowed it to maintain a social media monopoly, putting billions on the line