Lina Khan: “You can only undo so much in three and a half years”

Lina Khan: “You can only undo so much in three and a half years”

The future of the American economy is being decided in Washington DC’s District Court, a squat grey building on Constitution Avenue. In May, I followed corporate lawyers in dark suits into Courtroom 22A on the second floor and took a seat. On my left sat Meta’s legal team; on my right were lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency founded in 1914 to break up monopolies and keep the economy competitive. The FTC was suing Meta, F…