Google critics spent the weekend trying to make sense of how the Justice Department's next step scrutinizing the company might unfold
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department’s plans to investigateAlphabet Inc.’s Google have been building over time, amid a growing public conversation about whether the government should do more to scrutinize the handful of giant tech firms that dominate the U.S. landscape.
The department’s antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission, which share federal antitrust enforcement authority, have sent a variety of signals that they were eager to explore cutting-edge questions about how big tech is affecting the competitive landscape.
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