Open Markets Continues Call for FTC to Break Up Facebook
To address what it sees as Facebook’s threat to democracy, the FTC should unwind “bad mergers” like WhatsApp and Instagram and separate the platform from its ad-based business, Open Markets Institute said Monday. Congress and the FTC should also outlaw…
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“all discriminatory delivery of prices and services to individual citizens,” the organization said. Facebook should be forced to abandon its business model, “which is to sell advertising based on the corporation’s ability to attract people’s attention, capture their secrets, and then use that information to manipulate thoughts and actions,” Open Markets Board Chair Zephyr Teachout said. The company and the agency didn’t comment.