{"id":213199,"date":"2023-02-17T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=272004"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:59:23","slug":"meta-apple-tiktok-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/meta-apple-tiktok-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked documents expose Zuckerberg&#8217;s biggest fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, is going through a difficult time in its life. A few months ago, the company presented million-dollar losses due to its investment in the Metaverse. Two months later, it closed its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/meta-new-layoffs-facebook-instagram\" title=\"connectivity division\">connectivity division<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/meta-new-layoffs-facebook-instagram\" title=\"laid off 13% of its total workforce\">laid off 13% of its total workforce<\/a> (something that could be repeated shortly). This month, Meta itself had to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/meta-increase-value-stock-market-repurchase-shares-40000-million-dollars\" title=\"buy back company shares valued at 40.000 million dollars\">buy back company shares valued at 40.000 million dollars<\/a> to avoid a big fall in its price.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/b2253bb6-9b53-11e6-8b9d-00163ed833e7\/219705778\/facebook-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Facebook<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As it has been learned, Meta&#8217;s situation could still be delicate, despite the rise in its share price after the buyback, and its business could be in jeopardy due to Apple&#8217;s privacy policy on its mobile devices, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/zhang-yiming-creator-of-tiktok-pressed-by-half-the-world\" title=\"enormous growth of TikTok, whose popularity has only grown since 2018\">enormous growth of TikTok, whose popularity has only grown since 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"TikTok\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/25d01a14-3485-42e7-a253-e5050ac51dd1\/3735921813\/tik-tok-icon.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">TikTok<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/tik-tok.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/tik-tok.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2023\/2\/15\/23599734\/meta-facebook-stock-apple-competition-tiktok-mark-zuckerberg-alex-schultz\" title=\"leaked internal document\">leaked internal document<\/a> from Meta&#8217;s marketing director, Alex Schultz, the executive warns his employees to be cautious with the company&#8217;s forecasts of improvement: &#8220;We have to keep our eyes on the horizon and not focus on the reaction of the street and the price of our shares. I believe in this company, but we are still at the beginning of this change of course, not everything will go well&#8221;, wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The manager wrote that Meta is still &#8220;at the whim of Apple&#8221;, referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singular.net\/glossary\/app-tracking-transparency\/\" title=\"ATT\">ATT<\/a> of the apple company, a privacy policy that, by default, means that apps do not obtain user usage data to segment their advertising, and they must be the ones who approve that it can be make this use of your private info. A change that would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danielnewman\/2022\/02\/10\/apple-meta-and-the-ten-billion-dollar-impact-of-privacy-changes\/\" title=\"seriously affected the advertising business of Facebook and Instagram\">seriously affected the advertising business of Facebook and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Reels-de-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272015\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Schultz also made mention of Reels, Meta&#8217;s short video feature created to compete with TikTok. In the document, the manager says that the \u201cmonetization efficiency\u201d of the feature thanks to ads has increased, &#8220;but it&#8217;s still too low&#8221;, and what Reels is &#8220;even smaller than TikTok&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internal Meta document expresses the fears of the parent company of Facebook and Instagram towards Apple and TikTok at a time of great change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":213200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[3744],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-213199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322117,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213199\/revisions\/322117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213199"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=213199"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=213199"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=213199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}