If you told low-polling Joe Biden a couple of months ago that he’d have a rebound this summer, he’d have celebrated. It proposed a White House Competition Council to tackle a lot of those problems. “There’s been a real change in the enforcement culture of antitrust laws,” says Tim Wu, special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy. Comparisons abounded to Facebook’s decade-old purchase of Instagram, then a relatively tiny startup, which only later became an owned-and-operated giant. I figured his fingerprints might be all over the administration’s tech policy.

Source: New York Times August 05, 2022 19:00 UTC