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Facebook backed down on Houseparty acquisition due to antitrust scrutiny
Facebook had planned to gobble up even more of the social media market.
67 percent of Americans believe big tech companies have behaved anticompetitively
More people that ever think big tech companies should face antitrust scrutiny.
New bill set to fine big tech companies up to 30% of their revenue for monopolistic practices
The US Senate seems to have fallen out of love with tech companies.
DuckDuckGo calls on regulators to help consumers as Google announces pay-to-play default search engine scheme
Google were forced to offer alternative default search engines on Android – but now they want search engines to bid for the chance to appear as a default option.
Tulsi Gabbard: to protect free speech online, break up big tech monopolies
Gabbard has consistently spoken out against censorship and promoted free speech online.
Amazon and Microsoft now control half of the entire cloud infrastructure market
The illusion of choice is getting weaker.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is working to break it up
Hughes is working with a group of academics to tackle Facebook’s monopoly.
Australian watchdog to call on Google and Facebook to reveal their algorithms
A major new report released today, outlines all the was Australia wants to rein in big tech. And forcing tech companies to reveal their algorithms is one of the recommendations.
Australia sets up a new antitrust branch to monitor Facebook and Google
The branch will eventually span out to monitoring other platforms. They’re starting with what they see as the worst offenders – FB and Google.
US Department of Justice opens broad antitrust review into the practices of big tech companies
This comes after months of scrutiny into the alleged anti-competitive practices of many leading big tech firms.
Facebook and Amazon lobbying reach new heights amidst big tech criticism
Facebook is being criticized for Libra and Amazon wants to with a big government cloud project.
Facebook rep denies under oath that the company devotes any resources to identifying promising tech acquisitions
Perault’s testimony contradicts reports and leaked documents which show that the company used its Onavo VPN app to monitor the popularity of WhatsApp before acquiring it.