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He also recently hired another antitrust activist to serve as a White House economic advisor.
These moves signal Biden's aggressive stance against tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Lina Khan, a top antitrust lawyer, to the Federal Trade Commission, Politico's Playbook reported Tuesday.
The decision is a sign of Biden's aggressive stance against tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, who have long drawn criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Democrats accuse them of throttling competition in the marketplace and perpetuating the spread of disinformation. And Republicans accuse Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms of unfairly censoring conservative viewpoints, though there is no evidence for this claim.