The hearing featuring Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and others has rules that could allow them to escape serious scrutiny.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Monopolists Spying on Food Stamp Recipients
A Department of Agriculture pilot program allowing online grocery sales through the food stamp program exposes users to surveillance and predatory marketing, a study finds.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
As the Revolving Door Swings
Big Tech could be forestalling platform regulation in a stealthy way.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich
Strategic consultants will define Biden’s relationship to the world.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Facebook Boycott and Corporate Co-Optation
Big business tries to divert a protest movement into meaningless symbols.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Decisive Tax Defeat for the Multinationals?
Altera, owned by Intel, just lost a major case on corporate offshore tax evasion. It could signal the end of ‘transfer pricing’—the most common and flagrant way big companies avoid taxes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s Private Government
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Finds Competent Defenders Hard to Come By
You don’t want the guy who said there would be 500 total deaths from COVID-19 in the United States as your champion.
