Despite PR Pivot, Meta Is Still A Monopoly And A Threat To A Free Society

The Federalist ^ | April 08, 2025 | Rachel Bovard

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The FTC is not suing Meta for its past leftism or current MAGA-ism but for its longstanding, documented monopolism.

Even Big Tech’s toughest conservative critics must admit Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, the $1 trillion company finally scrapped its worst woke initiatives, from Facebook’s infamous “fact-checking” regime to its internal DEI programming. Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content. And Zuckerberg has even rebranded himself — going “all-in on a MAGA-dominated Washington,” buying a $23 million home two miles from the White House, and frequently rubbing shoulders with the president and his senior advisers.

With Meta’s very survival on the line in a landmark antitrust trial set to start next week, pundits from Washington to Wall Street to Silicon Valley are all wondering how much of an effect Zuckerberg’s political pivot will have on the case.

Let me suggest an answer: none.

Whether Meta’s MAGA turn this year is sincere or cynical is irrelevant. The fact is, Meta is an illegal monopoly. Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 with anti-competitive intent, as Zuckerberg and his team’s own emails prove with smoking-gun definitiveness. The Federal Trade Commission has Zuckerberg and his firm dead to rights. They should proceed with the trial, win, and break up Meta, period.

The FTC’s case against Meta has nothing to do with partisan politics. The commission first investigated the company’s Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions under President Trump. This case was first brought in 2020 during the first Trump administration. And now it’s progressing to trial under Trump’s new chairman, Andrew Ferguson. That this bipartisan consensus has held firm despite Zuckerberg’s serpentine maneuvering — both the $400 million he contributed during the 2020...

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Whether Meta’s MAGA turn this year is sincere or cynical is irrelevant. The fact is, Meta is an illegal monopoly.

Zuckerman is now feigning he didn't help steal 2020.

[Red Badger]

Monopolies by themselves are not ‘illegal’.

What is illegal is doing things to maintain that monopoly by preventing others from competing with you............

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Right Brother]

Stephen Crowder‘s undercover investigation exposed a high level Meta employee declaring Zuck is totally faking it to avoid going to jail for election interference.

[joshua c]

baby metas a la baby bells

[OneVike]

This is a bold face lie, and Trump needs to take Zuck to the matt on this and force him to stop.

Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content.

As it has been for over the last 5 years, everything I post to my almost 16,000 member private fb group is still being shadow blocked so bad that I get only an average of 35 people ever seeing them, and on a good day I get maybe 10 comments???