On the company s many bad behaviors, so i m not surprised the ftc is concerned. what impact does this really have, right? the suit aims to reverse the acquisitions of whatsapp, but, david, i worked in m and m, over 70% of m&a, over 70% of transactions fail. we don t really know. and, in fact, a former ftc commissioner tells me proving the counterfactual is a tall order. we could see facebook broken up, but there s nothing easy about this case for the ftc. the case will involve a difficult effort to assess what would have happened otherwise. so the ftc is placing a very heavy bet on the idea that these acquisitions forestalled the emergence of significant rivals to facebook as a social network. reporter: in response to my inquiry, a meta spokesperson highlighted the ceo s comments orb the fierce competition from tiktok, so it will take years of