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Big Tech faces bipartisan onslaught with five US House bills

By Michael Acton and Max Fillion
  • 11 Jun 2021 14:36
  • 11 Jun 2021 15:15
Democratic and Republican lawmakers joined today to announce five legislative proposals to crack down on the power of the likes of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
Draft versions of the bills, which would target issues such as acquisitions and self-preferencing, were seen by MLex earlier this week and didn't show Republican

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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