24 Min.

Everybody Sues Facebook What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

    • Technologie

This week, the FTC and more than 40 state attorneys general brought antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. And they’re not pulling their punches. They are calling for Facebook to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into independent companies. In other words, breakup.

The lawsuits represent some of the most significant antitrust action in the United States in the last 40 years. Will they get results?

Guest:

Tony Romm, tech policy reporter at the Washington Post

Host
Lizzie O’Leary
 
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This week, the FTC and more than 40 state attorneys general brought antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. And they’re not pulling their punches. They are calling for Facebook to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into independent companies. In other words, breakup.

The lawsuits represent some of the most significant antitrust action in the United States in the last 40 years. Will they get results?

Guest:

Tony Romm, tech policy reporter at the Washington Post

Host
Lizzie O’Leary
 
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Min.

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