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Senator Josh Hawley outlines a plan to break up Big Tech
A new bill was introduced today.
Senator Josh Hawley wants to make it harder for Big Tech to acquire smaller tech companies
Big Tech often buys small companies to maintain its market share.
Facebook says it won’t notify the half a billion users that had their data leaked
The data was stolen in 2019.
Obama administration refused to act on 2013 FTC report that proved Google’s wildly anticompetitive behavior
How the monopoly came to be.
Biden looks to former Obama staffers, Amazon and Google advisers, for top antitrust roles
A conflict of interest for an administration saying it wants to regulate Big Tech.
FTC and 48 state AGs file antitrust lawsuits aiming to break up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
The lawsuits accuse Facebook of illegal monopolization.
Biden campaign calls for more post-election Facebook censorship
Campaign staffers want Facebook to stop allegations of voter fraud.
Facebook is on the brink of an antitrust lawsuit
Facebook is next.
MembersA breakdown of the Democrats’ Big Tech antitrust report
We condense the report down to the main takeaways.
Trump encourages states attorneys general to start their own investigations into Big Tech censorship
Investigations could soon be announced.
The 2009 hacks that led to Twitter settling with the FTC share many parallels with the recent Twitter hacks
The settlement was in relation to two 2009 hacks where intruders compromised and tweeted from several high profile accounts including the account of then-President-elect Barack Obama.
Some Cognizant contractors reportedly had access to internal Twitter tools that enable account takeovers
Cognizant is a third-party company used for moderation.