FTC, State Prosecutors Seek to Break Up Facebook for ‘Anticompetitive Conduct’ Posted byMichael Kan December 10, 2020 Leave a comment on FTC, State Prosecutors Seek to Break Up Facebook for ‘Anticompetitive Conduct’ The FTC and a coalition of attorneys general argue that Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to stop them from leapfrogging Facebook. But Facebook says the legal action is “revisionist history.”