Becoming a Monopoly Was Always Facebook’s Goal

‘Copy, acquire, and kill’

Will Oremus
OneZero
Published in
2 min readDec 9, 2020

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Mark Zuckerberg.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Image

Wednesday’s filing of a major government antitrust suit against Facebook is a landmark in the internet’s history. We knew the suit was coming; we didn’t know it would call for a full-on breakup that would split off Instagram and WhatsApp from the parent company. You can read the Federal Trade Commission’s 53-page complaint here.

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