WASHINGTON—A Washington think tank backed by Google Inc. and parent Alphabet Inc.’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has fired a prominent scholar who praised the $2.7 billion fine recently issued by European regulators against Google for antitrust violations. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the chief executive of the New America Foundation, said in a statement Wednesday that she fired the scholar, Barry Lynn, because his “repeated refusal to adhere to New America’s standards of openness and institutional collegiality meant that...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2017 00:22 UTC