killing competition they argue that the company should be broken up my colleague the reporter jill dougherty is on this story for joe i mean you've got a kings here were facebook it is a giant but it became a joint by buying of smaller companies what's wrong with that well read you a quote directly from mark zuckerberg the regulators that they found in one of his e-mails now in 2008 zuckerberg wrote it is better to buy than compete now that summarizes the alleged misconduct that went on here because under u.s. antitrust law it's a legal for companies to buy off their rivals in order to get rid of competition now the f.t.c. says that's exactly what facebook has done and what it calls a buy and bury strategy you have to remember that facebook started in the desktop era and when smartphones came along it was really threatened by these new apps that let people share photos more easily and messages more easily and rather than improve its own services facebook used its financial power to buy up these rivals an effective effectively create a monopoly in social media and messaging and regulators say

competition they argue that the company should be broken up my colleague you know the reporter jill dougherty is on this story for you know i mean you've got a case here we're facebook it is a giant but it became a giant by buying up smaller companies what's wrong with that well read you a quote directly from mark zuckerberg the regulators say they found in one of his e-mails now in 2008 zuckerberg wrote it is better to buy than compete now that summarizes the alleged misconduct that went on here because under u.s. antitrust law it's illegal for companies to buy off their rivals in order to get rid of competition now the f.t.c. says that's exactly what facebook has done in what it calls a buy and bury strategy you have to remember that facebook started in the desktop era and when smartphones came along it was really threatened by these new apps that let people share photos more easily and messages more easily and rather than improve its own services facebook used its financial power to buy up these rivals an effective effectively create a monopoly in social media and messaging and regulators

illegally killing competition they argue that the company should be broken up my colleague reporter jill dougherty is on this story for us i mean you've got a kings here were facebook it is a giant but it became a giant by buying up smaller companies what's wrong with that well read you a quote directly from mark zuckerberg the regulators said they found in one of his e-mails now in 2008 zuckerberg wrote it is better to buy than compete now that summarizes the alleged misconduct that went on here because under u.s. antitrust law it's illegal for companies to buy off their rivals in order to get rid of competition now the f.t.c. says that's exactly what facebook has done and what it calls a buy and bury strategy you have to remember that facebook started in the desktop era and when smartphones came along it was really threatened by these new apps that let people share photos more easily and messages more easily and rather than improve its own services facebook used its financial power to buy out these rivals an effective effectively create a monopoly in social media and messaging and regulators say

illegally killing competition they argue that the companies should be broken up my colleague reporter jill dougherty is on the story for is joe i mean you've got a case here we're facebook it is a giant but it became a giant by buying up smaller companies what's wrong with that well read you a quote directly from mark zuckerberg the regulators say they found in one of his e-mails now in 2008 zuckerberg wrote it is better to buy than compete now that summarizes the alleged misconduct that went on here because under u.s. antitrust law it's illegal for companies to buy off their rivals in order to get rid of competition now the f.t.c. says that's exactly what facebook has done in what it calls a buy and bury strategy you have to remember that facebook started in the desktop era and when smartphones came along it was really threatened by these new apps that let people share photos more easily and messages more easily and rather than improve its own services facebook used its financial power to buy up these rivals and effective effectively create a monopoly in social media and messaging and regulators sa