Coming on the tail end of President Trump’s administration, the lawsuits against Facebook announced Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission and 46 states and districts might seem like the last angry quack of a lame duck who’s harbored a long-running grievance against social media executives.

But the breadth of the bipartisan coalition bringing forward the suits, which allege anti-competitive practices by Facebook and seek to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, suggests this fight will continue well past Trump’s last day in office.

The participation of nearly every Democratic attorney general in the country suggests the incoming administration of President-Elect Joe Biden will press on with the suits, said Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy.

With Trump using his bully pulpit to rail against alleged monopolies in the tech sector, the laissez-faire consensus of the Obama years has given way in both parties to a shared sense that the power of the tech giants must be addressed — even if the two sides disagree about what that means.

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