Khan is the latest Big Tech critic that the Biden administration has tapped to join the administration, setting up a likely hard-line stance against the powerful industry. ADIn her 2017 paper, Khan presented a way to look at antitrust that went beyond examining just near-term effects on consumer pricing, which has been a cornerstone of American antitrust policy interpretation for decades. There, she helped lead the House investigation into anti-competitive behavior from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The CEOs of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple were grilled by Congress over their far-reaching market power last summer. ADADThe chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter are expected to appear before Congress again later this month.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2021 16:08 UTC