@mathowie so, do we know why the DOJ waited to bring the indictments until after the 2022 midterms, when the clock started to tick on getting a conviction before the next election? Were they unaware of the risks, or did they think it was worth it?
back in 2023 when Threads launched, a friend working there said Zuck pushed everyone to create a mastodon-compatible twitter clone so they could pitch it as an open source API to distract the US govt from breaking Meta up, which ultimately worked