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Facebook: One of the most popular social media platforms is accused in 46 different states of the United States of breaking laws instead of monopolizing.
Your Attorney General New York and 45 other US states have filed lawsuits against him Facebook, claiming that he has violated antitrust law. Specifically, the movements of the platform in the last decade are legally controlled and they ask it to sell the acquisitions it has made in all this time, such as those of Instagram and his WatsApp.
Thus, after the lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice in October against the company Google from Alphabet Inc., The complaint against Facebook becomes the second largest in the field of technology in the last year.
The strong that exists against him Facebook, is that it moves with the logic of monopoly as it rushes to acquire small companies that are likely to become serious rivals in the future. Examples of such cases are its acquisition Instagram the 2012 and his WhatsApp the 2014.
The answer given to a relevant question of Congress by its CEO Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was that your company has competitors and has named specific tech giants. At the same time, he commented that the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp helped the two companies become dominant players in the field of social media and technology, while initially they were small and insignificant.
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