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What Facebook Really Doesn’t Want You to Talk About
The social media giant told lawmakers in London regulation on politics could be helpful. But antitrust is another matter.
We should talk about Facebook’s dominance.
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The headline of the New York Times’s eye-opening Nov. 14 investigation into Facebook Inc.’s handling of the past year’s torrent of bad news was “Delay, Deny and Deflect.”
In Tuesday’s hearing at the ludicrously named International Grand Committee on Disinformation and ‘fake news’ in London, it became clearer than ever what the social network giant is trying to keep out of the public discussion: antitrust.