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The Week Google and Meta Faced an Antitrust Reckoning

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Wall Street Journal, April 18 by Meghan Bobrowsky and Jan Wolfe

John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University who recently worked for the FTC, said the Meta and Google cases are similar to Microsoft’s antitrust case in 1998. “The companies’ origins were rooted in a brilliant idea but they ended up in trouble,” Kwoka said. “They end up in trouble by exploiting their bright idea.”

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