Statement on Meta/Zuckerberg Trial

As Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms corporate executives testify in the Federal Trade Commission's case against them in U.S. District Court, the Socialist Party calls for additional anti-trust actions, and works to build a socialist government that will prioritize workers and consumers over corporations and CEOs.

The party notes that the lawsuit - originally filed in December 2020, during the first Trump administration - was not a serious attempt to restrict anti-competitive practices, but was filed because of a personal grudge between Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, who banned Trump from using Facebook weeks later.

Anti-trust actions are a vital tool for curbing anti-competitive and monopolistic corporate behavior, but the U.S. government's actions - particularly against Big Tech companies - are too little, too late, and too slow to combat destructive behavior by these powerful and manipulative corporations. With Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter/X, firmly entrenched in Trump's inner circle, the possibility of new federal action against Big Tech is highly unlikely unless it is another suit designed as personal retribution against a perceived enemy of the Trump administration.

The Socialist Party calls for the breakup of large media companies, re-regulation of the communication industries, and public control and funding of media programming. More and vigorous anti-trust actions against monopolistic and anti-competitive practices are a first step to achieving these aims.

Ultimately, the rejection of the capitalist parties that benefit financially from the corporate domination of physical and digital media is the path to liberation. The Socialist Party continues to build an alternative to these parties and urges Americans to join this movement.

passed by the National Executive Committee 4/21/25