If your life was disrupted by the Facebook outage today and, say, you couldn’t communicate with loved ones because WhatsApp was down, or maybe your career or your small business took a hit because Instagram was down, maybe we should be asking ourselves why one company is trying to monopolize the Internet, communication platforms and digital commerce. And maybe we should break them up.
AOC discusses the impact of Facebook's outage and suggests breaking up the company due to its monopolistic control over communication platforms.
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