… may shift course on antitrust
Donald Trump will likely dial back some of the antitrust policies pursued by Biden, potentially including a bid to break up Alphabet’s Google over its dominance in online search, experts said. Trump is expected to continue cases against Big Tech, several of which began in his first term, but his recent skepticism about a potential Google breakup highlights the power he will hold over how those cases are run.
The US Department of Justice is pursuing two antimonopoly cases against Google __ one over search and another over advertising technology, as well as a case against Apple. The Federal Trade Commission. led by Lina Khan, is suing Meta Platforms and Amazon.
The DOJ has laid out a range of potential remedies in the search case.