Google has been found to have not one, but two illegal monopolies in the US, and Meta is facing it's own antitrust lawsuit. What's happening and what does it mean both globally and here in Europe?

Rather than do a deep dive into one topic, this week we're doing a "newsbag" and quickly reviewing several bits of news from the past couple of weeks.

We're looking at the latest wave of social media challengers and debating if they actually stand a chance against incumbents like Meta and TikTok

Sources used for this episode:
- https://www.wired.com/story/this-platform-wants-to-return-civil-discourse-to-social-media-by-scoring-users/
- https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/custom-feed-builder-graze-is-building-a-business-on-bluesky-and-investors-are-paying-attention/
- https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-statistics/
- https://www.theverge.com/news/637668/facebook-friends-only-feed-algorithm
- https://www.newsweek.com/bluesky-anti-toxicity-features-twitter-x-rival-1946192
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-could-transform-social-media/
- https://www.mixbloom.com/resources/average-time-spent-on-social-media-2022
- https://backlinko.com/reddit-users
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/reddit-ipo-public-content-moderation.html
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/onlyfans-reveals-record-breaking-revenue-175230410.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB8C1AhVRqO6lA4jpYImMyqCoo7eDMbq7vCJRjmakXc5cNI5fQV5HCs2cRtDZGcZPmoSMWzhrjSFgCme47b2aT8SPWy82kf9Co3gcs865LDCvtaMcr1nImL26j5wAimTfdbDFB22f_C9IaBz-4DnGu7-jv5z2s-jQXpjQEIOb7Tz