Last month, Lina Khan—a widely known critic of Big Tech companies—was sworn in as the newly minted chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She already faces a considerable challenge after a federal judge dismissed the agency’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, allowing it 30 days to file an amended complaint. In this defining moment of her early tenure, Khan—who comes from a more progressive movement of antitrust lawyers and theorists—will be quite busy attending to the complaints that members of Congress, academics, and other stakeholders have about large technology companies.
The debate on antitrust reform should incorporate racial equity (brookings.edu)