Illustration: Pearl Law
Illustration: Pearl Law
Francis Fukuyama
Opinion

Opinion

Francis Fukuyama

Should Facebook and Google be broken up to save democracy, as US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren suggested?

  • Facebook, Google and Twitter are in the same position as US television stations of the 1960s. However, instituting a ‘fairness doctrine’ to regulate them will be harder. Instead, antitrust legislation encompassing social media is the way forward