EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley explains why Big Tech monopolies need to be broken up

Published May 6, 2021 11:00am ET



The federal government should move to break up Big Tech companies like Facebook in response to what Republicans describe as censorship of conservative speech, Sen. Josh Hawley said Wednesday.

“The real problem with Facebook is the monopoly power that they enjoy,” Hawley told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview. “Nobody would particularly care about Facebook’s censorious actions if there were rival competitors that actually had a legitimate shot at taking away customers, but there’s not.”

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