Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects
Randy Picker
ProMarket
December 2020 was an extraordinary period in US antitrust law. On December 9, 2020, two cases—one by the Federal Trade Commission and one by state attorneys general from almost every state—were brought against Facebook. One week later, a group of states, led by Texas, brought a new case against Google. And the following day, states, led by Colorado, brought an additional suit against Google. That means Google is now facing three government cases, as the federal government and another group of states had filed an antitrust case against Google on October 20, 2020.