Roadmap for an Antitrust Case Against Facebook

Facebook has a monopoly in social media and/or social networks, whether considered in lay or legal or economic terms. This paper applies an economic and competition policy lens to the following premise: in a competitive market, Facebook’s constituents would enjoy the best social network Facebook can provide. Those constituents include (1) consumer/users who access the platform and use its services at no monetary cost; (2) digital advertisers who pay to gain access to those users; and (3) publishers whose content is distributed on the platform and who earn ad dollars when Facebook funnels readers to them.