PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A 14-page report Facebook lawyers prepared in advance of a potential antitrust lawsuit from the government found such action would hurt users, be contrary to established law and cost billions of dollars, WSJ reported after seeing the document. The FTC didn’t immediately respond to a WSJ request for comment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Last year, Rohit Chopra , a Federal Trade Commission official, said fining tech companies will not make a difference. The probe, which was launched last year, is intended to uncover whether the tech giant is engaged in illegal antitrust practices.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A recent letter sent by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows there is bad blood between the U.S. Department of Justice — as well as a number of state attorneys general — have been investigating tech giants, such as Alphabet’s Google and Facebook , for possible violation of antitrust laws. The FTC and the U.S.

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