Faced with new questions about whether it’s a monopoly, Facebook Inc is making a bold argument: owning so many communications platforms helps keep users safe.
On May 22, the European Parliament asked chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg whether he should be allowed to own two of the world’s largest chat applications, Messenger and WhatsApp, in addition to the biggest social network and the photo app Instagram. The company answered May 23 in an online post, saying there are “many consumer benefits” to having Facebook control so much of the world’s communication.