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The US government wants to break up Facebook. Good â it s long overdue
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The Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified remotely before a congressional subcommittee in July. Photograph: Graeme Jennings/AFP/Getty Images
The Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified remotely before a congressional subcommittee in July. Photograph: Graeme Jennings/AFP/Getty Images
Fri 11 Dec 2020 09.48 EST
Last modified on Mon 14 Dec 2020 16.40 EST
This week the government filed a ground-breaking antitrust suit against Facebook, seeking to break up the corporation for monopolistic practices. The suit comes on the heels of a similar case against Google, as well as an aggressive Democrat-authored congressional report recommending taking apart not just Google and Facebook, but Apple and