Revelation that AT&T helped found OAN shows how business wants to monetize extremism

By Ari Paul

What the AT&T breakup can teach us about the tech monopolies of today

By Ernesto Falcon

When the US Department of Justice broke up AT&T, it traded one national monopoly for a set of regional monopolies. Over time, Congress learned that it wasn’t enough. Today, we are facing a similar challenge. Potential breakups of Google and Facebook will only be step one.