Wall Street Journal
Judge denies FTC’s request for injunction blocking Meta’s proposed acquisition of virtual-reality startup (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 06:28Amazon Cited by Labor Department for Hazards at Three Additional Warehouses (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 06:25Mangled Voice-to-Text Messages Are Embarrassing Users (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/01/2023 - 06:44Biden Administration Considers Cutting Off Huawei From U.S. Suppliers (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 06:18TikTok’s Chief to Testify Before Congress in March (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 06:48DOJ Suit to Break Up Google Was Years in the Making for Antitrust Chief Jonathan Kanter (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 00:54Meta to Reinstate Donald Trump’s Facebook, Instagram Accounts (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 10:29Biggest Pay Raises Went to Black Workers, Young People and Low-Wage Earners (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/24/2023 - 06:25Congress Must Halt Big Tech’s Power Grab
Big Tech has far too much power. Ahey have a chokehold over essential channels of communication and commerce, allowing them to be gatekeepers to the digital world. They vacuum up a trove of personal information about users—what they see, hear, read, think and buy. And they distort the “marketplace of ideas.” Congress must act quickly to prohibit the tech giants from unfairly leveraging their dominance into more markets. This doesn’t mean rewriting the antitrust laws but rather taking these three steps: