Big Tech’s Canned Responses Won’t Cut It Anymore
Amazon, Facebook, Google and others need better answers to regulators’ questions about their size, power and influence.
Government inquiries are messy, lengthy, tricky to untangle from politics and impossible to predict.
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The U.S. technology superpowers need better talking points — and fast.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that it would start reviewing how “market-leading online platforms” became big and whether they are squashing competition, limiting innovation or hurting consumers in other ways that may violate U.S. antitrust laws. The government didn’t name names, but rest assured you can throw Google parent company Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and maybe Apple Inc. into that mix.