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The Brian Lehrer Show

Meta's Big Antitrust Trial

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Cristiano Lima-Strong, associate editor at Tech Policy Press, offers analysis of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. I'm Amina Cerna, a producer for the Brian Lear Show,

0:16.4

filling in for Brian today. Good morning, everyone. Coming up on today's show, it's a health and climate

0:22.6

double header. First, we'll talk to Julie Rovner from KFF Health News. She's been following

0:28.2

health secretary, RFK Jr's so-called Make America Healthy Again Tour. He says his goal is to fight

0:34.6

chronic disease and promote a healthy diet, but many health experts

0:38.5

see a contradiction there, since the health department has been cutting thousands of jobs where

0:43.3

employees were working on chronic diseases. Plus, for the climate portion of our Health and

0:48.7

Climate Tuesday series, we'll hear about how the Trump administration has cut $300 million

0:54.1

in FEMA funding for climate

0:56.2

resiliency programs here in the city. And remember the new, the brand new climate change

1:02.6

superfund act, advocates called it the make polluters pay bill. Governor Hokel just signed it into law

1:08.7

last year. The Trump administration has issued an executive order targeting it.

1:14.4

And we'll wrap today's show with travel advice for green card and other visa holders who

1:19.1

might be worried about interactions or even arrests at the border.

1:23.5

My guest is the legal advisor to CUNY's free immigration law service program.

1:28.3

But first, META, the company, formerly known as Facebook, could be split into two or more.

1:37.7

Yesterday, at a court in D.C., the U.S. Federal Trade Commission kicked off its antitrust trial

1:43.3

targeting META's years-old purchases

1:45.5

of the social media app, Instagram, and the messaging app WhatsApp. The FTC is accusing META

1:51.7

of creating a monopoly that end stifling competition by making those purchases. The government

1:58.1

wants META to spin off those services into separate companies, a move that would

2:02.3

amount to the largest corporate breakup since the AT&T telephone monopoly was forced to split in the 80s.

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