"Guy Verhofstadt, who leads the Liberal ALDE group, says the activity of fictional social media company the Circle in a 2014 novel seems "very near to the reali

"Guy Verhofstadt, who leads the Liberal ALDE group, says the activity of fictional social media company the Circle in a 2014 novel seems "very near to the reality" of Facebook's role today." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2017_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2017_film) "German Christian democrat MEP Manfred Weber, who leads the centre-right EPP group, ... asks Mark Zuckerberg why the company has not stopped access to user data to all developers, not just Cambridge Analytica. He says he would be interested in his arguments as to why, given Facebook's power, its algorithms should not be made public. He also asks Mr Zuckerberg to name a competitor it has in Europe, and asks him to "convince him" with arguments as to why his company is not a monopoly that should be broken up." On issues raised relating to competition, [Zuckerberg] says that communication is a "competitive space" where people have "many choices". "It feels like there are new competitors coming up every day," he notes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-44210723 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-44210...