Tag: Big Tech
EU Reignites Efforts To Force Big Tech Transparency
EU leaders are getting ready to initiate a consultation on its Digital Services Act after pausing it in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,...
India should enforce media regulation on big tech
By Dipayan Ghosh, Hindustan Times
Are leading Internet firms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, as operators of social media platforms, publishers of editorialised content...
Big Tech State Antitrust Probes Continue During COVID-19
Multistate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Alphabet’'s Google are continuing during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reported Bloomberg.
“These investigations will not lose steam,” Gwendolyn Cooley,...
Experts Say Big Tech’s COVID-19 Response Won’t Carry Weight In Antitrust...
New work from home set-ups and a goodwill tour by the Big Tech companies are unlikely to soften the nation’s top antitrust agencies in...
American Antitrust Institute’s Unsure Trump Can Tackle Big Tech Issues
The American Antitrust Institute doesn't have a lot of hope for the Trump Administration addressing concerns about whether Big Tech companies buying up potential...
The New Abuse Rules in the German Competition Act – What’s...
By Dr. Thomas Weck (German Monopolies Commission)1
Digital platform markets pose novel issues when it comes to enforcing the competition rules. A draft bill...
CPI Talks… with Representative Ro Khanna
In this edition of CPI Talks we have the pleasure of speaking with U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, of California’s 17th Congressional District.
Thank you, Representative...
Gojek Notches $1.2B In Funding To Compete With Rival Grab
By Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt Law School)
The claim that breaking up and regulating big tech might have consequences for great power competition deserves to be...
Bill Barr Takes-over DOJ’s Tech Probe
Attorney General William Barr has set his sights on big tech companies like Google and Facebook, and has personally taken over the Department of Justice’s...
Oracle Is Funding Dark Money Group To Fight Big Tech
The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) started last year and quickly joined the growing crusade against big tech. At the time the non-profit group refused...