Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook – WSJ (Nov 13, 2013)
This is, as far as we know, the only time Facebook actually tried to buy Snapchat outright, and although Facebook had attempted to clone Snapchat for the first time in 2012, most of its efforts to copy features or the entire app have come since, starting in 2014 and accelerating dramatically in 2016.
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