Break up Google and Facebook, urges Biden team adviser
The group urged that the US justice department make clear it will continue competition action against Google by expanding the scope of litigation beyond search to maps, travel, and its app store. File photo: Sam Boal /Rollingnews.ie
Tue, 12 Jan, 2021 - 15:50
Nandita Bose
The Biden administration should expand competition cases against Google and Facebook and encourage breaking up companies, according to a group whose founder is working with the president-elect’s transition team.
The American Economic Liberties Project, an influential Washington-based anti-monopoly group, issued a report with guidance for enforcers in the next administration. The group is led by Sarah Miller, who is working with president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team and has been instrumental in making antitrust enforcement against big tech a mainstream issue.