Big tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google have been buffeted in recent years by regulators and Congress for a variety of sins, both real and imagined. The Biden Administration has appeared especially keen to rein them in and has made threats--both explicit and implicit--to attempt to break them up.
While much of this appears to be regulatory overreach, amounting to little more than a chapter from FTC Chair Lina Khan’s graduate school thesis, there happen to be a few genuine instances of a big tech titan manipulating the regulatory efforts of the government to hamper their competitors.
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