WASHINGTON: The Biden administration should expand antitrust cases against Alphabet's Google and Facebook and encourage breaking up companies, according to a group whose founder is working with the president-elect's transition team.
The group urged that the U.S. Justice Department make clear it will continue antitrust action against Google by expanding the scope of litigation beyond search to maps, travel and its app store. The report calls on the Biden administration to appoint aggressive Justice Department and FTC antitrust enforcers and urges Biden's attorney general nominee, Merrick Garland, to"publicly commit to seeking a Google breakup.""The anti-monopoly movement is really young...We wanted to lay out a vision that people in a new administration can rally around and can use as a clear roadmap for not only what's possible but what's necessary," Miller told Reuters.