The Department of Justice said it is opening a wide-ranging review of “market-leading online platforms” for potential competition concerns, an inquiry that could sweep up Amazon, Facebook, Google and others in the government’s regulatory crosshairs. The DOJ’s new effort aims to explore “widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online,” the agency said in a statement, pledging that it would “seek redress” if in the course of its investigation it identifies violations of federal antitrust law.
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