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Pressure is building among some Democrats for another antitrust probe of Google

Pressure is building among some Democrats for another antitrust probe of Google

6 years ago
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2018/06/04/pressure-is-building-among-some-democrats-for-another-antitrust-probe-of-google/

A top Democrat in Congress is calling on the U.S. government to investigate Google, the latest sign that some of the party's lawmakers are ready to challenge the tech industry after befriending it in the past.

The new complaint comes from Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a progressive in the upper ranks of the Democratic National Committee. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission dated May 31, Ellison urged the watchdog agency to take a closer look at Google and its parent company, Alphabet, given that European regulators recently found that the search giant harmed its rivals and fined it $2.7 billion.