The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case

Mark Zuckerberg has been in a D.C. courtroom reviewing more than a decade of email communications about his company, Meta .

This is the last place Zuckerberg wanted to be; he literally visited the White House to lobby to get out of it, and offered $1 billion to settle.

Mark Zuckerberg’s control of public attention is likely to shrink over time, as competitors rise up that Meta won’t be able to buy.

Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram and WhatsApp to prevent competition for his business, says Peter Bergen .

Bergen: Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.

He says the trial has already yielded something: Meta as a company is less likely to maintain its vise grip on social networking. Bergen says the fact that the trial went forward at all shows bipartisan interest in enforcement.