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What two of Facebook’s top executives have to say about tech’s big antitrust moment
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Facebook AR/VR lead Andrew Bosworth will talk about the future of the social network at Code Conference 2019.
As The Verge’s Silicon Valley editor, I’ll have a chance to ask that question directly of two longtime Facebook executives, Adam Mosseri and Andrew Bosworth, on Monday at Code Conference 2019.
Mosseri ran the heart of Facebook — the News Feed — until October of last year. That’s when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg handed him one of the company’s most important assignments: ensuring the continued success of Instagram following the departure of its founders.
Bosworth — who met Zuckerberg when they were both at Harvard — has worked at Facebook since 2006 in a variety of roles. He currently serves as the company’s vice president for augmented reality and virtual reality, where he oversees experimental hardware projects such as Portal and Oculus.
In addition to discussing antitrust questions, we’ll be talking about Facebook’s pivot to privacy, its hardware efforts, and Instagram’s recent experiment with making “Likes” private — all onstage at Code on Monday, June 10, at 4:15 pm PT.
How to watch the full interview: Each and every onstage interview at Code will be available to watch in full on Recode’s YouTube channel in the coming days.
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