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Congress must bring antitrust laws into the digital age to hold Facebook accountable Editorial Board © Gabby Jones President Biden’s selection of Jonathan Kanter, a longtime critic of Big Tech’s anticompetitive practices, to head the Department of Justice’s antitrust division is a sign that the administration is serious about holding tech behemoths like Facebook accountable. But the executive branch’s efforts alone are unlikely to stop the social media giant from gobbling up its competitors rather than competing fairly which has long allowed it to skirt the competitive market pressures that could force it to better protect its 2.5 billion users from massive privacy breaches and fast-spreading misinformation. The administration’s ability to enforce antitrust laws, including pressing Facebook to break off WhatsApp and Instagram into separate businesses, is only as strong as the laws themselves and the courts’ willingness to apply them to the digital

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