Showing posts with label anti-trust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-trust. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2020

The Anti-Trust Case Against Facebook

In the U.S., the federal government and 46 states have filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Facebook, accusing it of acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to squash potential competition. NPR's Planet Money has the story here. 21 min., transcript available.

Friday, October 23, 2020

 Google Anti-Trust Suit

The U.S. government has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Google. PBS has a short (6 min. 36 sec.) video about the case. Subtitles available as well as a transcript.

NPR has several audio presentations of this lawsuit. The presentation on Morning Edition is 4 min. 30 sec. long, transcript available. You can even find a copy of the complaint itself. Planet Money has a longer discussion (18 min.) of the lawsuit. A shorter 4 min. discussion which talks about other big-tech companies can be found here