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The DOJ that helps Facebook “fight election fraud” while benefiting from access to its data firehose has time to sniff around at Snap, which will only drive its stock price lower, which further helps Facebook weaken one of its only direct rivals.

This is why it pays to be corrupt. Notice there’s not even a thought of an antitrust trial in the opposite direction.

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How do you know there's not even a thought of an antitrust trial? People who would know would be prevented from discussing it in a public forum, so it's not going to be in their press releases.

Who are you alleging is corrupt in the above? Is the DOJ corrupt because you believe they have access to Facebook's "data firehose" (as far as I am aware, they have to subpoena data per investigation, just like anyone else). Is Facebook corrupt for complying with a legal data access request? It's really easy to make vague conspiracy allegations - please make some actual provable claims and ideally cite some sources for them.

But realistically what is Facebook doing that could be considered anticompetitive?

Ben Thompson at Stratechery writes thoughtful pieces around this for a start:

- https://stratechery.com/2017/why-facebook-shouldnt-be-allowe... - https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/

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