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In Europe this morning, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down. I’m tempted to believe they were having a fit of the vapors over the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finally taking action to tame the Zuckerberg-spawned monster. “We are working to get things back to normal,” was the party line on the outage, but it might well have applied to the mood in the room at Facebook HQ today..
To summarise, the FTC plus Attorneys General from 48 states - the others were busy? - have filed lawsuits accusing Facebook of illegal monopolistic behavior, abusing its market power to squash smaller competitors and looking for restitution that could well include an enforced breakup of Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services.