
Faceoff against Facebook: Stopping the flow of misinformation
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When David Pogue interviewed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2005, the company was just getting off the ground. "We've gone from having around 150,000 people in the fall to right around three million now," Zuckerberg said. "People use the site so much that it's creating a marketplace for advertising."
It was still called TheFacebook.com. It was still limited to college students, and it was still a little bit casual. Catching one of Facebook's employees crashing on a couch, Zuckerberg said, "Dude, what's up? Dude, you're on TV."
How did that Facebook become the object of criticism from Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) who, at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday, said, "Facebook is just like Big Tobacco, pushing a product that they know is harmful"?

Washington — Internal friction with the Justice Department team that fights monopolies has led to private conversations in the Trump administration about whether to push out some staff in the antitrust division or to work to smooth out the issues, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.