here's a story looking at some of Facebook's positioning and internal machinations due to Washington scrutiny, which includes pulling back on at least one acquisition — of the social app Houseparty — due to antitrust concerns https://t.co/0cFLKUpnfH

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019

also some news out of dc in the piece: in the course of the FTC’s initial investigation into FB’s privacy practices, agency uncovered documents that raised concerns around anticompetitive practices

went back, sought clearance with DoJ, got it — notified FB in june pic.twitter.com/TGVlugWD9A

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019

Pretty amazing, given the history. This would be like the third time Houseparty/Meerkat/LifeOnAir gets Facebooked. https://t.co/bx0zINJPG6

— Orr Hirschauge (@orr_hirsch) August 12, 2019

now FTC investigators are in the process of going back through FB’s history of acquisitions and contacting founders to set up interviews pic.twitter.com/GD1H1uvCr0

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019

Facebook halted acquisition talks with a video-focused social network last year. Its reason? It didn't want to incite antitrust concerns. https://t.co/gzB9nPmLdv

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) August 12, 2019

“The combination of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp into the single largest communications platform in history is a clear attempt to evade effective antitrust enforcement by making it harder for the company to be broken up.”https://t.co/dA2bdPgAYU

— Wolfgang Schröder (@Faust_III) August 12, 2019

Talk about stricter antitrust enforcement is already having positive effects even though we're a long way before any actual changes in policy. https://t.co/nbPGcavbXp pic.twitter.com/84rjPbwwnc

— Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) August 12, 2019

here's a story looking at some of Facebook's positioning and internal machinations due to Washington scrutiny, which includes pulling back on at least one acquisition — of the social app Houseparty — due to antitrust concerns https://t.co/0cFLKUpnfH

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) August 12, 2019

In both pre-emptive and defensive ways, Facebook is modifying its behavior to fend off antitrust concerns https://t.co/EO9xAtqrqe

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) August 12, 2019

The truth about Facebook and Houseparty https://t.co/DLzdpQKqre pic.twitter.com/qmCFuAxLA5

— FutureShift (@futureshift) August 12, 2019

Having social-media companies compete with each other might be one way to protect our privacy rights, but Facebook, having acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, is taking steps to avoid any possibility of a court prying them apart. https://t.co/gpARkaVqNv pic.twitter.com/RSaGgnUBNd

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) August 13, 2019

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal with Scrutiny of Its Power - by Mike Isacc via @nytimes #Facebook #socialmedia #trust #privacy #Truth #SMM cc @BillMew @DrJDrooghaag @schmarzo @sarbjeetjohal @FmFrancoise @FrRonconi @YIbnM https://t.co/PRThvD6LxW

— Ian Jones (@IanLJones98) August 13, 2019

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power

Now the world’s biggest social network has started to modify its behavior — in both pre-emptive and defensive ways — to deal with those threats. https://t.co/CtxteIh6dX

— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) August 13, 2019

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power https://t.co/qwMiMYbNqS pic.twitter.com/2X8Rytiqkt

— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) August 13, 2019

They can try but a leopard never changes its spots. #DeleteFacebook https://t.co/BSBke9OOva

— Michael Cholod (@MichaelCholod) August 12, 2019