Matt Levine, Columnist

Meta Will Make Friends

Also liability management exercises, crypto convertibles and not enough desks.

May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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I think a lot about the time that Mark Zuckerberg was hauled before Congress to answer questions about whether Facebook (now Meta Platforms Inc.) is a monopoly. He said:

“See,” I wrote, “Facebook also has a tiny market share, if you define its market as … human interaction? Human behavior? ‘Only like 5% of human life consists of Facebook, how could we possibly be a monopoly?’”