Some activists are lobbying for the social network to be broken up.
The news: Several progressive groups are mounting an ad campaign to persuade the US Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook, according to Axios. In case you hadn’t heard, the company is mired in a massive privacy scandal.
The surgery: The groups want the social network to divest Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, making them into standalone companies.
The remedy: The hope is that the newly independent businesses would create more competition, forcing Facebook to get better at protecting users’ data. But there’s no guarantee this would work—or that the FTC will embrace the idea.
The news: Several progressive groups are mounting an ad campaign to persuade the US Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook, according to Axios. In case you hadn’t heard, the company is mired in a massive privacy scandal.
The surgery: The groups want the social network to divest Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, making them into standalone companies.
The remedy: The hope is that the newly independent businesses would create more competition, forcing Facebook to get better at protecting users’ data. But there’s no guarantee this would work—or that the FTC will embrace the idea.
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