Emily Birnbaum

With the confirmation of a third Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission, the progressive chair regains the agency’s majority — and the ability to speed ahead with her priorities.

The American Principles Project wants to break up big tech companies, but it’s also fighting to curb transgender rights.

The tech giant is lobbying, filing court briefs and recruiting allies from other big companies to oppose bills targeting gay and transgender people in states like Iowa, Texas and Florida.

The policy implications are enormous, prompting privacy and antitrust advocates to watch Amazon’s moves with trepidation.

Groups backed by the tech giants say proposals for tougher enforcement would harm Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses. The industry’s critics aren’t buying it.

Staffers of the conservative outlet have urged GOP lawmakers to oppose a bill that would help news publications demand compensation from social media giants.

The record lobbying surge — more than $20 million for the year — came as the company faced the most serious political crisis in its history.

Small businesses that rely on the tech giants are signing petitions and joining Zoom calls with lawmakers to warn against legislation aimed at promoting competition.

Oracle and Google are lobbying for their pieces of the Pentagon’s new multibillion-dollar cloud contract.

Some congressional offices are either tuning out the social network’s lobbying efforts, aides say — or even refusing to meet with the company.

“Facebook routinely makes exceptions for powerful actors when enforcing content policy,” a data scientist at the company wrote in a December 2020 presentation.

Jonathan Kanter, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the DOJ antitrust division, will face questioning alongside a slate of judicial nominees.

John Branscome has spent more than a decade working for the Senate Commerce Committee, one of the leading congressional panels taking aim at the power of tech giants.

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“That was back before we knew how bad Google really was,” says Internet Accountability Project leader Mike Davis, who pitched his PR services to lawyers for the Silicon Valley search titan in 2019.

Without Lina Khan’s vote, the case against Facebook could hit serious roadblocks, splitting the vote 2-2 between Democratic and Republican commissioners.

The House speaker’s remarks come as an increasing number of her fellow Democratic California lawmakers raise concerns about the bills.

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