In a free market €1.2bn can't even buy a messaging app. A free market would be perfectly OK spending that money on dating apps, more ads for "alternative medic

In a free market €1.2bn can't even buy a messaging app. A free market would be perfectly OK spending that money on dating apps, more ads for "alternative medicines" that sell well but never shown to work, or disinformation campaign against (government-funded) scientists pointing out that your product causes cancer. Free market sometimes works, but it's no silver bullet.