Shutting the revolving door between Silicon Valley and Washington would signal an end to the swamp.
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Big Tech Earnings Confirm Allegations of Excessive Market Power
The Big Four companies took in $206 billion in revenue in the same quarter the economy fell off a cliff.
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The Triumphant Return of Congress
At Wednesday’s Big Tech hearings, the House Antitrust Subcommittee showed what informed politicians and a real investigation can do.
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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.
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Big Tech CEOs to Be Grilled—Five Minutes at a Time
The hearing featuring Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and others has rules that could allow them to escape serious scrutiny.
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Fiona, Apple, and Amazon: How Big Tech Pays to Win the Battle of Ideas
A leading antitrust scholar has been working for two tech giants and not disclosing it in her work.
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The Section 230 Fight Ended Six Months Ago
Lawmakers demanding an end to the liability shield for Big Tech should have thought about that when they enshrined it in the new version of NAFTA.
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Apple Gets a Boot in Joe Biden’s Door
Cynthia Hogan, one of the members of Biden’s vice-presidential search committee, was a top lobbyist for the computing giant.
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Silicon Valley’s Big Apple Gambit
The four biggest tech firms are all opening offices in a very specific section of Manhattan, which happens to be the home district of one of their chief antagonists in Washington.
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Tech Companies’ Big Reveal: Hardly Anyone Files Arbitration Claims
Responding to Congress, they make clear that forced arbitration gives them the means to sidestep the law.