I'm as concerned as anyone about Facebook’s “fact-checking,” deleting posts, and political interference. But the Dec. 9 announced prosecution by the Federal Trade Commission and 46 state attorneys general is not about that. It is an attack on the company’s size and monopoly power. An earlier launch by the Justice Department against Google is along the same lines.
The Federal Trade Commission claims that Facebook “is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.” It wants Facebook to divest itself of two immensely popular apps, WhatsApp and Instagram.
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