"LAST WEEK, THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, along with more than forty state attorneys general, announced they were suing Facebook for its anti-competitive practices, which they allege include the company’s previous acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. The suits follow a House Subcommittee hearing on Big Tech and a similar antitrust investigation into Google that was announced earlier this fall. At the House hearing back in September, former Facebook executive Tim Kendall gave a speech evoking the specter of what is likely the most forceful and well-known legal effort against corporate power in American history: the Big Tobacco trials. Kendall, who’s featured as a prominent voice in the hit Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, told Congress in his speech, “We didn’t simply create something useful and fun. We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset.”