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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, the FTC and more than 40 state attorneys general brought antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. And they’re not pulling their punches. They are calling for Facebook to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into independent companies. In other words, breakup. The lawsuits represent some of the most significant antitrust action in the United States in the last 40 years. Will they get results? Guest: Tony Romm, tech policy reporter at the Washington Post Host Lizzie O’Leary   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, you.

0:01.6

Listening to your favorite podcast again.

0:04.9

A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?

0:06.7

My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.

0:09.9

I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.

0:13.2

It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.

0:15.7

There's a killer out there picking them off, all while trying to frame me.

0:20.5

I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.

0:23.0

Someone is watching me.

0:24.2

I can feel it.

0:25.3

Is it you?

0:26.4

You. You. Now streaming only on Netflix.

0:34.9

Tony, I feel like you're our anti-trust guy these days.

0:39.4

It's like deja vu, isn't it?

0:41.4

I called up Tony Romm from The Washington Post again, because for the second time in three months,

0:47.2

the government is going after Big Tech, and that's his beat.

0:51.0

The last time we called you was Google.

0:53.5

So here we are again.

0:54.7

Yeah, here we are weeks later, and we have another tech company

0:57.9

getting the crap sued out of it by the US government.

1:01.2

Not the technical term, but I'll allow it.

1:03.6

We all attended the news conference on Zoom in Swebhands yesterday when

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