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Lauren Feiner

Lauren Feiner

Senior Policy Reporter

Senior Policy Reporter

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    Lauren Feiner
    Google and the Justice Department have made their opening salvos in court.

    The government is trying to make this case about Google imposing control over a market, with DOJ counsel Julia Tarver Mason Wood arguing that “Google acquired its way to success.”

    Google, meanwhile, says the suit is about the government unlawfully forcing it to deal with rivals. It claims it’s not consolidating three markets, just working in one market with a buy and sell side.

    Lauren Feiner
    Lauren Feiner
    Heavily redacted transcript (barely) shows how Congress decided to pass the TikTok bill.

    The Department of Justice filed a very redacted transcript of the classified briefing House lawmakers received before passing the bill that could ban TikTok unless it spins out from its Chinese owner. If you squint around the blocks of blacked-out text, you can kind of start to see how the DOJ will likely defend the bill in oral arguments on September 16th.