While Google seeks to toss Jonathan Kanter off a pending case concerning its adtech business, the company hired a law firm that previously represented its direct competitors.
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Fixing Disinformation Online
What will it take to regulate the abuses of Big Tech without undermining free speech?
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Lawsuit Highlights Why Meat Has Been Overpriced for 40 Years
Agri Stats lets meat processors coordinate their pricing. The Justice Department finally decided to go after what it calls collusion.
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The EU’s Tough New Rules for Tech
Will they survive an intense and preposterous lobbying campaign by the U.S. platform giants to brand them as discriminatory against American companies?
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Monopolist Secrecy Demands Are Overwhelming—and May Be Illegal
One anti-monopoly group contends that withholding basic financial information violates federal securities laws.
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The [REDACTED] Case Against Amazon
You go to information war with the clickbait you have.
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Google Erects Cone of Silence Around Antitrust Case
The company has successfully closed off testimony and exhibits in the public trial, limiting public discussion of its monopoly.
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Google’s Fight Against Antitrust Hits a Roadblock
The search giant complained that antitrust regulator Jonathan Kanter believes in antitrust. Courts didn’t buy it.
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Q&A: Tim Wu on the U.S. v. Google Trial
Google claims its product is just superior. Says the former White House competition czar: ‘We now can see that a lot of those arguments are horseshit.’
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Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist
On day one of the historic monopolization trial, the government put Google’s chief economist on the stand to show that the company valued default status on browsers and devices.