Pressure on Big Tech builds as Biden picks another critic for key Justice post

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U.S. President Joe Biden plans to name lawyer Jonathan Kanter as Justice Department's antitrust chief, a source familiar told Reuters on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden nominated lawyer and Google critic Jonathan Kanter as the Justice Department's antitrust chief on Tuesday in the latest sign the White House is determined to rein in the world's biggest corporations, especially Big Tech.

He has spent years representing rivals of Alphabet Inc's Google, which the Justice Department sued last year, alleging that it broke antitrust law in seeking to hobble rivals.

 

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