European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager talks to the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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The EU antitrust chief was asked about Facebook at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris after leading US Democratic politicians and one of Facebook’s co-founders recently spoke in favor of a break-up of the company.
“Of course it would be a remedy of very last resort. I think it would keep us in court for maybe a decade. It is much more direct and maybe much more powerful to say we need access to data,” Vestager told reporters.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s co-founder and former college roommate Chris Hughes this month used a New York Times opinion piece to urge US regulators to break up the tech giant.
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