The Federal Trade commission has sued to break up Facebook. If successful the social media giant would be forced to sell off Instagram and What’s App as individual businesses.

“Facebook has maintained its monopoly position by buying up companies that present competitive threats and by imposing restrictive policies that unjustifiably hinder actual or potential rivals that Facebook does not or cannot acquire,” the commission said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.

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