Agency assignments of tech companies raise questions

Ben Remaly

04 June 2019

Joseph Simons, Margrethe Vestager, and Makan Delrahim (Credit: FTC)

Former officials appear sceptical that clearance agreements for reviewing potential anticompetitive activities by the nation’s largest technology companies necessarily signify full-blown investigations.

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