The U.S. Justice Department will open an antitrust investigation of Facebook Inc...
) Google, have increasingly been on the defensive in recent years over lapses such as privacy breaches and outsized market influence.
The Justice Department later said it was opening a probe of online platforms. It did not specify which ones, but said it would consider concerns raised about “search, social media and some retail services online”. The Justice Department’s antitrust chief likewise told a tech conference in August that the government is looking at previously approved acquisitions as part of its broad review.Lawmakers, in particular Sen. Mike Lee, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, criticized the appearance of an overlap in a hearing last week.
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