Deep-dive refutes allegations of anti-GOP social media bias
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Quick Fix Bias or bust? Some Republicans and tech critics have pointed to social media’s bans of former President Donald Trump as another data point in alleged anti-GOP bias. But a new report refuting those claims says those very platforms, in fact, amplify conservative voices.
Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division
Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.
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Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland is working behind the scenes to install longtime aide Susan Davies as head of antitrust at the Justice Department.
This piece has been co-published with The Intercept.
As the fight over the direction of the Biden administrationâs antitrust policy intensifies, a new figure has entered the fray, scrambling the calculus: Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland. The battle so far has largely been fought out between lobbyists for Big Tech and their allies on the one hand and skeptics of monopoly power on the other.