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Big Tech’s Professional Opponents Strike at Google

New York Times
October 21, 2020

Months before the Justice Department filed a landmark antitrust suit[1] against Google this week, the internet company’s adversaries hustled behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for a case. Nonprofits…

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As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place

New York Times
October 18, 2020

The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon, a Democrat running for a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in Maine, as a hypocrite. Angela Underwood, a freelance…

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Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans

New York Times
October 6, 2020

WASHINGTON — For all the divisions in Washington, one issue that had united Republicans and Democrats in recent years was their animus toward the power of the biggest tech companies.…

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U.S. Appeals Injunction Against WeChat Ban

New York Times
October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON — The federal government on Friday appealed a judge’s ruling that prevented the Trump administration from imposing a ban on WeChat, the popular Chinese-owned messaging app[1]. The Justice Department…

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U.S. Judge Hears Arguments on Trump’s TikTok Ban

New York Times
September 27, 2020

The Trump administration on Sunday fought an attempt to delay its ban of the wildly popular app TikTok that is scheduled to take effect at midnight, telling a federal judge…

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Pasta, Wine and Inflatable Pools: How Amazon Conquered Italy in the Pandemic

New York Times
September 26, 2020

NAPLES, Italy — Ludovica Tomaciello had never shopped on Amazon before being trapped at her parents’ house in March during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown. Bored one afternoon scrolling TikTok, she spotted…

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TikTok and WeChat: What They Tell Us About the Global Internet

New York Times
September 22, 2020

On Sunday, millions of phones across the United States buzzed with a peculiar notification: “TikTok is here to stay!” The alert led to a video post[1] by TikTok’s interim global…

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TikTok Deal with Oracle and Walmart Trips Over U.S.-China Feud

New York Times
September 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — A deal intended to address the Trump administration’s concerns about TikTok’s ties to China was complicated on Monday by a disagreement over whether a U.S. company would control…

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After Trump’s TikTok Ban, China Readies Blacklist of Foreign Companies

New York Times
September 19, 2020

BEIJING — As the United States and China trade blows over technology, Beijing on Saturday moved to create a blacklist of foreign companies seen as threatening its national security or…

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U.S. Appeals Injunction Against WeChat Ban

Pasta, Wine and Inflatable Pools: How Amazon Conquered Italy in the Pandemic

TikTok and WeChat: What They Tell Us About the Global Internet

After Trump’s TikTok Ban, China Readies Blacklist of Foreign Companies

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