Just as Zuck launches Facebook dating, Tish James smacked him down with a fresh antitrust probe
. And what does the Facebook chief get in return? A massive anti-trust probe. On Friday, New York Attorney Generalannounced a bipartisan, multi-state probe into the social media giant, focusing on its “dominance in the industry and the potential anticompetitive conduct stemming from that dominance.” “Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect consumers,” James said in aFriday morning.
The inquiry is just the latest speed bump for Facebook, which is also facing anti-trust probes from the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The company is nowhere near off the hook for its mishandling of user date, but recent inquiries have focused on its monopolistic behavior, too.who helped Zuckerberg found Facebook in their college dorm room, has helped lead the push for an
against his old friend, calling for regulators to break up the company. “He’s human,” Hughes wrote of Zuckerberg back in May. “But it’s his very humanity that makes his unchecked power so problematic.”taking up the charge, Zuck has not backed off his quest for world domination; instead, he’s seemingly quadrupled down on it, insinuating himself into ever more aspects of his users’ lives and making his digital empire even more difficult to disentangle.
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