The US FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is supposedly weighing a ban in opposition to Facebook to stop it from incorporating Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger into its own platforms, as per the media. The news comes after reports that the FTC has been probing Facebook as fraction of an antitrust probe, on the basis that its policies are anticompetitive.

The commission began its probe after Facebook declared that it might unify the technical underpinnings of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. That might let its 2.7 Billion consumers to send encrypted, private messages from one application that can be received on a different app. “We are developing a ground for social communication associated with the direction users more and more care about: messaging one another privately,” he claimed.

The primary concern of FTC is that the acquisition by Facebook of rival apps such as Instagram has lowered social networking competition. The commission thinks that if Facebook tightly incorporated those apps into its own system, it might become much harder to disintegrate.

Facebook revealed about the FTC probe previous summer. The Justice Department of the US, various states, and Congress are also seeing into possible anticompetitive behavior. As a result, Facebook allegedly scrapped the notion of purchasing the chat app Houseparty.

Facebook has shifted from one controversy to another, specifically with different privacy scandals and Cambridge Analytica. Critics have asked for its breakup by loosening the WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions that boosted its monopoly. As of 2018, Facebook had almost 66% of the worldwide social media market, in comparison to 11% each for Twitter and Pinterest. Last year, the firm earned $22.1 Billion of net profit.

It can be hard for the FTC to get aban, let alone break apart apps of Facebook. First, it might have to establish in court that Facebook had breached antitrust rules or was about to.