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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
If you’re just joining us, Mark Zuckerberg had a dinner last night with senators to talk election security, data privacy and competition issues. He’s got a slew of meetings coming up, including with House Intel Chair Adam Schiff and Senate Commerce Ranking Member Maria Cantwell. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Maria Cantwell will be among those meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his trip to Washington this week, a person familiar with the matter tells me. (Cantwell is one of a small handful of lawmakers trying to craft a national privacy bill.) — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @donie: Mark Zuckerberg will be in DC tomorrow — his first time there since April 2018 when he testified in the aftermath of the Cambrid… — PolitiTweet.org
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New: Pennsylvania to join the multi-state suit to block the T-Mobile/Sprint deal. The coalition now has 18 AGs and, per a look at the Census Bureau numbers, represents over 51 percent of the U.S. by population. https://t.co/ZbmnlvLVGb — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
We’re wrapping up here but before we go, Lee is teasing next week’s hearing on tech mergers. — PolitiTweet.org
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@aseitzwald @KateNocera Would love to connect with both of you to discuss a greenfield opportunity worth iterating upon — PolitiTweet.org
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(This makes complete sense and isn’t much of a surprise.) — PolitiTweet.org
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Delrahim acknowledges DOJ has been in touch with the FTC about the FTC’s prior antitrust investigations of Google, as DOJ spins up its own Google probe. — PolitiTweet.org
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Sen. Lee: “I’m not expressing frustration over the fact you don’t always see eye to eye … I’m saying it’s weird we have a system set up that pits you against each other." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
This idea that maybe we should just do away with either the FTC or the DOJ’s antitrust authority seems wild to me. Has this had any traction outside of this committee room? — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Blumethal: Didn’t your staff find the T-Mobile/Sprint deal anticompetitive and recommend to block it? Delrahim doesn’t quite answer and says, as he has before, “we were prepared to sue” had a settlement not been reached. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@imillhiser please post all of these — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Delrahim says there might be a role for antitrust to consider claims of anticonservative bias, “to the extent it’s part of the qualitative analysis” that looks at choice and quality. Simons takes a harder line, saying this is probably “better suited for another set of tools." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Lee is now asking about anti-conservative bias. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Facebook also tells me the company is committing double-digit millions to an irrevocable trust that will fund the oversight board for multiple years: https://t.co/LD35Or4en9 — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Facebook is rolling out the charter for its forthcoming oversight board today, saying it soon expects to name the first members of an organization designed to review Facebook’s decisions on content takedowns and appeals: https://t.co/LD35Or4en9 — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
There are signs Delrahim is taking this really personally — he’s going so far as to say he’s owned two Priuses and a Tesla as evidence he isn’t out to get carmakers for being green. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Whitehouse keeps saying it’s “bizarre” DOJ is investigating this when the fossil fuel industry is all over Capitol Hill with coordinated lobbying to defeat clean energy. Delrahim says he doesn’t have any evidence of a violation but that that’s the point of an investigation. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Whitehouse and Delrahim are in a *really* tense exchange, with Delrahim giving heated replies to claims that his automaker probe is politically motivated. — PolitiTweet.org
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Simons says they’re moving swiftly to address Big Tech. “That’s why we created the tech task force.” Sen. Blumenthal fires back: “You need more than a task force. You need action." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Hawley is asking why Simons thinks the FTC deserves more resources when, in his view, the FTC isn’t doing its job. “What I see from your agency is frankly a culture of paralysis. I’m tempted to call it a culture of capitulation. I’m worried about agency capture." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Leahy is asking Delrahim on @Fahrenthold and @OConnellPostbiz’s reporting on @JohnLegere’s stays at the Trump hotel in DC. Delrahim suggests the hotel is conveniently located to DOJ, but vows his decisions "were not based on the hotel stays of any merging party." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Leahy again presses Delrahim on whether the White House has inappropriately gotten involved in antitrust enforcement. "I can unequivocally say no, senator,” Delrahim said. Leahy: “Nobody directly or indirectly?” “That’s correct.” “That’s your answer?” “That’s my answer." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Delrahim says DOJ has “several dozen attorneys” working on its tech investigations. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
(It’s really remarkable the extent to which this family drama has sort of spilled out into public view.) — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Asked whether the FTC’s relationship with DOJ on a division of antitrust investigatory labor has “broken down,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons says “Yeah, I would agree with that.” DOJ’s Makan Delrahim says he can’t deny that at times his and Simons’ time has been “wasted." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Asked whether the FTC’s relationship with DOJ on a division of antitrust investigatory labor has “broken down,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons says “Yeah, I would agree with that." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
TL;DR None of this matters if judges don’t give a crap — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Klobuchar notes the ongoing investigations of Big Tech are happening “against the backdrop of a federal judiciary that is … increasingly skeptical of antitrust enforcement.” A signal she's not confident that even if regulators bring a case, that they can persuade the courts. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Klobuchar says she plans to ask about "concerns about reported White House attempts to interfere in antitrust enforcement efforts for political purposes." — PolitiTweet.org
