Facebook looks like its preparing for war

(The Business Insider) Facebook looks as if its preparing for war with US President Donald Trump. The company recently hired Kate Patchen the chief of the Department of Justices antitrust division in San Francisco. It follows Trump saying that his administration is looking at antitrust proceedings against Google Amazon and Facebook. Facebook is also hiring a lead counsel on competition matters in Washington. Facebook has hired one of the top antitrust lawyers in Silicon Valley in a sign that the company could be preparing for war with Donald Trumps administration. Kate Patchen the chief of the Department of Justices antitrust division in San Francisco has joined Facebook as director and associate general counsel of litigation. Patchen updated her LinkedIn profile earlier this month with the news which was first spotted by the Financial Times. Business Insider has contacted Patchen and Facebook for comment. Patchens hire comes during the same month that US President Donald Trump said his administration was looking at antitrust proceedings against tech giants Google Amazon and Facebook.You look at the European Union they fined I guess it was Google billions of dollars and frankly I dont like that theyre doing that because thats an American company Trump told Axios. I dont think its good that theyre doing that. But if anybody does that it should be us doing it.