How New Antitrust Bills Could Force More Data Access from Facebook and Google

Posted Monday, June 21, 2021 12:00 am

Kate Kaye | Digiday

The groundswell of antitrust activity is continuing to intensify.

A new round of bipartisan antitrust bills proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives is taking aim at big tech platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon. If the legislative package passes, practical rule-making and actual enforcement may soon follow from the just-named Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, an antitrust reform proponent.

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How New Antitrust Bills Could Force More Data Access from Facebook and Google

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