1/ The House Judiciary Committee released a report Tuesday urging the breakup of Big Tech. It caps a 16-month investigation. A short thread with some context from our previous reporting, including one of our investigations cited in the report.
2/ In July, the heads of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook testified before the committee together for the first time. Lawmakers grilled the CEOs, alleging the companies have abused their monopoly power. themarkup.org/2020/07/30/con…
3/ A day before the hearing, we published a months-long investigation into Google Search. @leonyin and @adrjeffries found Google gave 41 percent of the first page of search results to the company’s own properties and products—a lot of it at the top. themarkup.org/google-the-gia…
4/ @davidcicilline cited our investigation at the hearing, saying we proved Google is a “walled garden which keeps users on Google’s sites, even if Google doesn’t have the most relevant information.” themarkup.org/google-the-gia…
5/ A few weeks later, @adrjeffries reported that internal Google documents showed the company had been preparing for antitrust scrutiny for years, coaching employees to avoid words like “market” and “network effects,” even in internal communications.
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6/ Here’s the full House report (it’s a light 450 pages). You can find the reference to us on page 194: judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/… /end
Correction: The reference is on page 195, not 194.
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