Facebook says it's all about connecting people and building community. And it's done just that, uniting Republican and Democratic lawmakers against it.
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and 46 states (along with Washington, D.C., and Guam) filed two antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. In the Washington version of a rare lunar eclipse, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle support the lawsuits.
One of their demands is that Facebook divest its ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp.
In response to the lawsuits, Facebook defended itself online, claiming it faces plenty of competition and that it "invested billions of dollars and millions of hours to make Instagram and WhatsApp into the apps that users enjoy today." Read more...
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