California Reveals It’s Been Investigating Facebook

California Reveals It’s Been Investigating Facebook

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https://www.wired.com/story/california-attorney-general-facebook-investigation/

Over the last two months, nearly every state and territory has announced investigations into the market dominance of Facebook, Google, or both. Missing from those probes was the place Big Tech calls home: California.

The Golden State’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has been curiously silent as his peers made plans to examine the biggest tech firms in his backyard. Becerra's supposed inaction garnered him a wave of negative local press, and last week led The New York Times to wonder what, exactly, his office was up to.