Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google and undo their acquisitions

On Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren tried to separate herself from a crowded field of Democratic challengers for the U.S. presidency with a big proposal: break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook, and unwind their recent acquisitions of smaller companies. Specifically, Warren suggested that these and other tech giants be considered “platform utilities,” and broken apart from any participant on the platform, she wrote on a Medium post. Second, Warren said that, if elected, she would appoint regulators “committed to reversing illegal and anti-competitive tech mergers.”To read this article in full, please click here