Why breaking up Facebook won't be easy

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Busting up the nation’s tech giants would be much harder than making a campaign pledge. Corporate breakups are a huge, and rare, undertaking for the government, and a social media company like Facebook presents unique challenges that didn't exist with past antitrust successes like the dismembering of AT&T in the 1980s. Here are some of the obstacles standing in the way of turning this rallying cry into reality:

  1. Proving Facebook is a monopoly
  2. Deciding what to break up
  3. Antitrust cases take time and money
  4. The legal bar has gotten higher
  5. Limits on the president’s power

Why breaking up Facebook won't be easy