Acting Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said Thursday that breaking up Big Tech companies such as Facebook may be the best solution to the anti-competitive problem they create, her most aggressive stance yet on the issue.

“In many cases, unscrambling a consolidated company may be much easier than imposing behavioral conditions,” Slaughter, a Democrat, said Thursday at an event hosted by Germany’s competition agency.

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