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Facebook Probe Causing Infighting At FTC

  • Axios, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:11 AM
Axios takes us insider the FTC’s Facebook probe as “two units of the agency have squared off over how to apply older, price-based competition standards to a market full of free products.” As it further explains: “The internal conflict at the FTC emerged between the agency’s Bureau of Competition, which is leading the Facebook inquiry, and the agency's Office of Policy Planning, which was originally tasked with developing guidelines for FTC antitrust reviews of tech firms last fall.”

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