https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200609/13350244675/interoperability-privacy-squaring-circle.shtml

Not long ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, making it easier for competing services to thrive.

In the time since, Facebook has continued to be rocked by scandals: privacy breaches, livestreamed terrorist attacks, harassment, and more. At the same time, competition regulators, scholars and technologists have stepped up calls for Facebook to create and/or adopt interoperability standards to open up its messenger products (and others) to competitors.