Joe Nocera, Columnist

This Flip-Flop From the Antitrust Cops Isn’t a Threat to Google

A speech by the Justice Department’s Makan Delrahim was hailed as a strike against Big Tech. Don’t believe it.

June 12, 2019 at 6:14 PM UTC

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

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The federal government’s chief antitrust enforcer, Makan Delrahim, gave a big speech Tuesday in Tel Aviv, and the headlines it prompted did not appear to bode well for Big Tech.

The speech “lays groundwork for antitrust vs. big tech,” announced CNBC. Delrahim “takes a swing at Google and Amazon,” wrote Fortune. He “rips Google and Amazon, citing historic breakups,” said Bloomberg News.