Mergers & Breakups

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Fourteen reasons to break up dominant firms

The Financial Times recently published a long article entitled How Germany became Europe’s leading Big Tech trust buster, lauding the country for its proactive regulation of tech giants.

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The UK is breaking up Facebook / Meta and (almost) nobody noticed

Welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance, the newsletter of the Balanced Economy Project. Update, June 14th: UK Tribunal agrees that Meta’s acquisition of GIPHY harms competition - Privacy International. Frances Haugen, the celebrated Facebook whistleblower, briefly became a bit of a cult hero for exposing the giant platform's toxic role pushing algorithms that encourage teenage suicides,

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