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The Antitrust Case Against Apple Argues It Has a Stranglehold on the Future
The US Department of Justice had long been expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. But when the suit…
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Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could…
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Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click
Lobbyists for cable companies and advertisers yesterday expressed their displeasure with a proposed “click-to-cancel” regulation that aims to make it…
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Amazon’s All-Powerful ‘Buy Box’ Is at the Heart of Its New Antitrust Troubles
Anyone who has shopped on Amazon will have seen the Buy Box with its peppy yellow and orange Add to…
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The EU Urges the US to Join the Fight to Regulate AI
The world’s most valuable and dominant internet companies are based in the US, but the nation’s unproductive lawmakers and business-friendly…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation…
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The FTC Sues Nvidia to Block Its Historic Deal With Arm
The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm, the semiconductor design firm, saying that the blockbuster…
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Lina Khan’s Theory of the Facebook Antitrust Case Takes Shape
When federal judge James Boasberg dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook in June, he gave the agency…
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Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up
When Facebook said Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem…
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The US Government Is Finally Moving at the Speed of Tech
In the summer of 2017, my boss at the Washington Monthly, a policy-focused magazine in DC, asked me to cover…
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