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Lauren Feiner

Lauren Feiner

Senior Policy Reporter

Senior Policy Reporter

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    Lina Khan is acting as Democrats’ celeb campaign guest.

    The Federal Trade Commission chair is scheduled to appear at events with candidates including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to Punchbowl News. It’s an interesting statement, as Khan’s progressive enforcement — especially when it comes to tech — has ruffled feathers even within the Democratic party. Donors like Reid Hoffman have urged Vice President Kamala Harris to oust her, if elected.

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    Lauren Feiner
    We got our first mic mute of the vice presidential debate.

    Impressively, it took nearly 30 minutes to actually happen. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) tried to respond to additional context moderator Margaret Brennan gave on Haitian immigrants’ legal status in Springfield, Ohio, accusing her of breaking the rules about fact-checking. “Thank you for describing the legal process,” Brennan told Vance before moving on after producers cut the candidates’ volume.

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    Lauren Feiner
    Amazon gets part of the FTC’s antitrust suit dismissed.

    In a sealed order, a federal judge granted part of Amazon’s motion to dismiss, but gave the Federal Trade Commission a chance to re-file at least some of those charges by the end of the month. Like Google’s antitrust trials, the judge said this one will be split up into a liability and remedy phase, if the court finds for the FTC.

    How Google tried to unravel the DOJ’s ad tech case

    To wrap up its case, Google tried to fit it into a Supreme Court precedent that could undermine the government’s argument.

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    Lauren Feiner
    Lauren Feiner
    Google and the DOJ are out of court until November 25th.

    Closing arguments in their ad tech antitrust trial will start at 10AM that day. But for now, it’s a wrap.

    The final day saw a couple of depositions from Google — including testimony from Ryan Pauley, chief revenue officer at Verge parent company Vox Media — plus a Daily Mail executive who returned in a short but heated DOJ rebuttal.

    How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself

    ‘All roads lead back to Google,’ the government argued in the first two weeks of its ad tech antitrust trial.

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