Zuckerberg Proves Meta Is Too Big

Mark Zuckerberg announced that then-President Trump ’s Facebook account would be indefinitely blocked because the president had condoned his supporters’ violent storming of the U.S. Capitol the day before .

Four years later , also on January 7 , he announced a reversal in Meta ’s content moderation policies: Fact-checking would be replaced by community notes, and the algorithms that remove hate speech would be dialed back.

Mark Zuckerberg had made the strongest case possible for breaking up Meta .

The content moderation project that seeks to mitigate speech harms by relying on platforms to self-regulate has failed abysmally.

It is finally time to create a market structure “conducive to the preservation of our democratic political and social institutions,” as the Supreme Court stated in 1957 in finding a company in violation of antitrust law.

Focusing on content over structure and cooperation over regulation ignores market power, disregards interests.