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A busy few weeks on the Hill for tech coming up: 9/12 House Judic. antitrust hearing on data/privacy 9/17 Senate Judic. oversight hearing of antitrust regulators 9/24 Senate Judic. hearing on tech mergers And now a 9/18 hearing on online extremism https://t.co/ezWTwWfrh9 — PolitiTweet.org

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The official explanation is “because you can now read the Post on the subway from your phone,” but part of me also wonders if it’s not a casualty of this phenomenon https://t.co/PGh3EByeQV https://t.co/Cz08QL1S48 — PolitiTweet.org

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I was in high school when they first launched this, and read it pretty much daily on my ride to class. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow: @washingtonpost is ending @WaPoExpress, the short-form newspaper it gives away to commuters riding the Metro https://t.co/IiJtkI0xkK — PolitiTweet.org

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@zackwhittaker This is next-level — PolitiTweet.org

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Separately, Sayyed said, his office is working on additional guidance related to vertical mergers — deals involving companies from related but different sectors — as well as mergers that are meant to eliminate a rival. (The latter has been hotly discussed in the tech context.) — PolitiTweet.org

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The remarks make it sound like just another one of the agency’s periodic guides but this could shape everything from the cases the FTC decides to bring to the legal arguments it makes. — PolitiTweet.org

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The guidance will basically be a roadmap for how the FTC can identify and correct anti-competitive behavior in tech. "It is intended to support the immediate and long-term enforcement efforts of the Commission,” Sayyed said at a conference at Georgetown University today. — PolitiTweet.org

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FTC staff are working on a set of guidelines laying out how antitrust laws apply to big tech companies like Google and Facebook. No word on when it’ll be ready but Bilal Sayyed, director of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, said today it’s his “highest priority." — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m just coming up for air. Have they said anything about an iPhone SE yet? — PolitiTweet.org

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CEOs of dozens of companies — including Amazon, Comcast, FedEx, GM, Target and Walmart — are calling for a national privacy law today in a letter to congressional leaders: https://t.co/cO3Kjcp1v4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Markets are weird, man https://t.co/Woulq2Cixo — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s more on today’s antitrust announcement targeting Google. With 50 AGs involved, DC AG Karl Racine said it’s an “unusual setting” for a group that normally disagrees on issues ranging from gun control to reproductive rights. https://t.co/7nQaZgQ1QF — PolitiTweet.org

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Chaotic good, right here — PolitiTweet.org

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I just asked California’s AG why the state isn’t among those in today’s antitrust announcement. A spokesperson emails back: https://t.co/J5ooMxyQ7j — PolitiTweet.org

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At this point everything has pretty much concluded. Which is just as well — this may be the sweatiest press conference I’ve ever been in — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s spelled “Ravnsborg.” Damn autocorrect. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OKnox Dammit Olivier! — PolitiTweet.org

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AG Ravensborg tells me anti-conservative bias is NOT a part of the initial investigation, though doesn’t rule out that it could lead there. But says it would be hard to keep a coalition of this size together if partisan issues kept coming into the picture. — PolitiTweet.org

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No, California and Alabama are NOT involved. Sorry, realize in hindsight that may have been unclear from the tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s 50 AGs involved — 48 states, DC and Puerto Rico. Missing are California and Alabama. — PolitiTweet.org

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Repeat theme emerging — the bipartisan nature of this probe. AGs speaking are striking a united tone — PolitiTweet.org

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The probe will start by focusing on search and advertising but Paxton says “but the facts will lead where the facts will lead” — PolitiTweet.org

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Paxton says 50 AGs are involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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And here we go. https://t.co/M4DUSfa1sc — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s more than a dozen states’ *attorneys general* (since DC is not a state). — PolitiTweet.org

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But from our reporting, we also know there are many more involved who aren’t here today. — PolitiTweet.org

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We’re told that more than a dozen states are IN DC for today’s announcement, according to a spokesperson for Texas’s AG. They include Texas, DC, Alaska, South Dakota, Indiana, Arkansas, Utah, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana and Nebraska. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Hello from a shady tree outside the US Supreme Court, where a bunch of states are expected to announce a major antitrust investigation of Google soon. Read up on that here: https://t.co/WBKSG4Ws4y https://t.co/MhWAUZrSwX — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations, Philips Hue, you've invented the light switch https://t.co/Y8vDeeYOcf https://t.co/KZQBNgqHa7 — PolitiTweet.org