Monopolies are bad. Let’s do something about it.

The real problem is that Facebook profits partly by amplifying lies and selling dangerous targeting tools that allow political operatives to engage in a new level of information warfare.

Tell Congress: "The House Antitrust Committee's report makes it clear: Facebook has too much power and too much control over the internet, with devastating effects for our country and our democracy. It's time to break up Facebook and the big tech monopolies." ADD YOUR NAME A bombshell new report from a Congressional investigation makes it clear: Facebook has become too big, it is undermining our democracy, and must be broken up. The House Antitrust Subcommittee issued its report this week after more than a year of investigation. They found that the lack of competition played a key role in enabling Facebook to erode user privacy and spread misinformation and racist, violent content across the country and even the globe. The report calls for breaking up Facebook and shows how stronger antitrust enforcement is key to taking on Zuckerberg and his gross abuses of power. Now we need to make sure all of Congress, and key federal regulators, take action on this urgent report. Can you help? Sign the petition to tell Congress and federal regulators: Break up Facebook! The report clearly demonstrates that the federal government's failure to properly enforce antitrust laws against Facebook helped allow it to execute a strategy of dominating social media, eliminating competitors, and creating the conditions that allowed right-wing conspiracy theories and hate organizing to flourish. Recently, Facebook employees across the company have spoken out against Zuckerberg's favorable treatment of Donald Trump and his misleading posts. But the problem is that Facebook's monopoly power enables them to make money from posts and clicks. As one former Facebook executive wrote, "The real problem is that Facebook profits partly by amplifying lies and selling dangerous targeting tools that allow political operatives to engage in a new level of information warfare." Facebook's business model depends on stoking right-wing extremism. And that business model is enabled by the lack of antitrust enforcement. One of the solutions is to make Instagram independent from Facebook again, as House Antitrust Subcommittee chair David Cicilline suggested. True competition would make it harder for Zuckerberg to profit from misinformation, and would give users a meaningful alternative to a platform that increasingly enables right-wing extremism. The report makes it clear that Congress and federal regulators must act. We have already seen the terrible consequences of inaction on Facebook's monopoly power. We cannot let this continue. Sign the petition: Tell Congress and federal regulators to break up Facebook! Thanks, Team Progress DONATE NOW Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.