I wonder if regulators will just decide the split up facebook.
It would take a ton of leverage and political goodwill across both the EU and the US, but i have no doubt it could happen.
It would take a ton of leverage and political goodwill across both the EU and the US, but i have no doubt it could happen.
I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what? It would be like asking to split Google into one company doing the search and another one doing the ads. You're talking about loss leader strategy here and you cannot have a company whose only product is a loss leader. Majority of users won't pay to have search or social network. They value their privacy much lower and would trade it to get the services without direct monetary compensation.
Here’s an easy start: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.
Instagram, WhatsApp, and multiple competing Facebook copies (say Facebook Red, Facebook Green, and Facebook Orange) with a mandate to interoperate with each other and with other networks. Existing accounts are divided randomly and evenly between the copies.