Senior Policy Reporter
Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws.
When she's not writing about Congress, she's probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.
Signal: laurenfeiner.64
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Breaking down the DOJ’s plan to end Google’s search monopoly
Selling Chrome might not be the most painful part of the DOJ’s antitrust demands for Google.
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Google and the DOJ make their final arguments in the ad tech monopoly case
“Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist,” the DOJ says.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. John James (R-MI) are prepping a new bill granting Meta’s wish of putting the onus for age verification on app store operators, The Washington Post reports. Parents could reportedly sue those companies if their kids are exposed to things like sexual material, but businesses could shield themselves by implementing age verification.
[The Washington Post]
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DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
Divesting Android is still on the table.