#AntiTrust

Sally Hubbard

Sally_Hubbard

Finally an antitrust case against Facebook is coming soon! Let’s revisit some juicy highlights from the @davidcicilline House Judiciary Big Tech report to see why it’s long overdue. https://twitter.com/katielpaul/status/1334281812722401

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. One thing to realize is that not only are voters cynical, but so are policymakers. Why is that? Let me introduce you to "process trolling," a term coined by

damien geradin

GeradinLaw

THREAD (1) As always, the @WSJ does first rate resporting on ad tech with this interesting story on the Texas lawsuit.https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-facebook-agreed-to-team-up-against-possible-antitrust-action-draft-lawsuit-says-116086

Jennifer Huddleston

jrhuddles

Starting now...House Judiciary Antitrust #BigTechHearing on Online Platforms and Market Powerhttps://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=3113 Rep. Nadler says it's effectively impossible to use the internet w/o using o

Sandeep Vaheesan

sandeepvaheesan

Big tech companies have used tying to extend their dominance into new markets. Short thread on this unfair practice and the still good law on it. Tying is when a

Amy MacPherson

MsAmyMacPherson

1/9 Please don't skip this short #thread if you care about misinformation in #CDNmedia, #CDNecon & #CDNpoli, because correcting these #antitrust issues is paramount to winning the infowar against a

Gender Bias

ExposingGender

Interesting female scholarship "experiment": 27 US antitrust professors (26 men, 1 woman) were asked to list their 3 favourite antitrust articles. Results: of 86 pieces cited, only 4 were authored

Berin Szóka 🌐

BerinSzoka

No, political bias in content moderation doesn't violate #antitrust (or consumer protection) laws, even if rivals coordinated to do it, because websites have a First Amendment right to decide what

Sandeep Vaheesan

sandeepvaheesan

1. Inspired by the New Yorker's damning portrait of WeWork and American capitalism today, a thread on how law unavoidably shapes business strategy, for better or for worse 2.

Will Oremus

WillOremus

There is a strand of thought that ties the problems of online speech and digital media to the market dominance of, e.g., Facebook, and recasts them as antitrust issues. While

Shannon

Avery1776

1) I know most researchers saw this last year. It's a good time for second look.@BenKTallmadge @CarrollQuigley1 @almostjingo @ECEverett1 https://www.scribd.com/document/337535680/Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-On-Fighting-Trump 2) S

Stacy Mitchell

stacyfmitchell

When Amazon wants to devour a startup or kill a rival, it sets up team to do it. They spy on the company, locate its suppliers, copy its products, suspend

Jesse Brenneman

Jesse_Brenneman

One of the reasons you kill monopolies and block vast concentrations of power before they take root is that you avoid situations like this, where a few private companies are

April Falcon Doss

AprilFDoss

When SSCI looked at social media amplification of false and inflammatory messaging in the 2016 election, online influence operations and radicalization were relatively unfamiliar issues for the public and lawmakers.

Hal Singer

HalSinger

.@noahpinion makes a good point here that breakups won’t solve many problems in tech, and that regulation will be needed to fill in the gaps. I am skeptical that competition

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. As @ZephyrTeachout notes, there is now a big opportunity to take on monopolies. Biden has picked an acting Antitrust chief, Gene Kimmelman, and an acting FTC Chair, @RKSlaughterFTC.https://twitter.com/ZephyrTeachout/status/13523425190912

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