The US government wants to break up Facebook. Good – it's long overdue | Matt Stoller and Shaoul Sussman

America broke up logging companies in the 1840s, Standard Oil in the 1910s, and AT&T in the 1980s. It's time to take on big tech

This week the government filed a ground-breaking antitrust suit against Facebook, seeking to break up the corporation for monopolistic practices. The suit comes on the heels of a similar case against Google, as well as an aggressive Democrat-authored congressional report recommending taking apart not just Google and Facebook, but Apple and Amazon as well.

The evidence against Facebook seems overwhelming, with enforcers pointing to internal email conversations in which the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and his colleagues allegedly conspired to monopolize the social media space by buying rivals and stifling competitors. Proof of intent to violate antitrust law appears to be ample. Yet news articles covering the case describe it as far from a slam dunk", and competition law experts predict that enforcers will face an uphill battle" in proving their claims.