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A Gilded Age courtroom scene depicting a judge high atop the bench wagging a disapproving finger at an expensively dressed figure in the foreground. The foreground character has lost his top hat, which sits on the floor, as he roots through a breifcase on the defendant's table. The foreground figure's head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The figure's right hand has been replaced with a Facebook 'thumbs up' icon. Hanging from the judge's bench like an unfurled scroll is a sheet of paper; the contents of this sheet have been replaced with the first page of the FTC's initial brief against Facebook.

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PITTSBURGH on May 15 at WHITE WHALE BOOKS:

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And in #PDX on Jun 20 at Barnes and Noble:

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More tour dates here:

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Zuckerberg in the dock: Facebook is finally going on trial.

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2025-04-11 16:49:17

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It's been more than a decade in the making, but Facebook - or, if you prefer, Meta - is going on trial for antitrust violations, with the highest possible stakes and the worst possible evidence (for Facebook).

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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A Gilded Age courtroom scene depicting a judge high atop the bench wagging a disapproving finger at an expensively dressed figure in the foreground. The foreground character has lost his top hat, which sits on the floor, as he roots through a breifcase on the defendant's table. The foreground figure's head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The figure's right hand has been replaced with a Facebook 'thumbs up' icon. Hanging from the judge's bench like an unfurled scroll is a sheet of paper; the contents of this sheet have been replaced with the first page of the FTC's initial brief against Facebook.

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If you come to PDX on the 20th I invite you to check out our local micro brew: Gigantic Brewery in S.E. PDX.

They have a particularly good Stout on Nitro -- enjoy - Cheers

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