U.S. Antitrust Boss Calls for Vigilance on Big Tech Platforms
- Delrahim says enforcers must guard against ‘misdeeds’ by firms
- Calls for new thinking on digital markets, dominant companies
Makan Delrahim
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The Trump administration’s antitrust chief said competition watchdogs need to keep an eye on digital platform companies that may be abusing their market power to thwart rivals, the latest sign of Washington’s intensifying scrutiny of technology companies.
Makan Delrahim, head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said at a conference in Chicago on Thursday that officials should be “open and receptive”’ to evidence that some tech companies may be engaging in exclusionary conduct, such as below-cost pricing aimed at driving out competitors, to gain control of a market.