Cheat Sheet: How new antitrust bills could force more data access from Facebook and Google (and stop them from favoring their own services)

A new round of bipartisan antitrust bills proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives is aimed at big tech platforms — including Google, Facebook and Amazon. I passed, those companies could be forced to make their data more accessible. It could also prevent them from favoring their own services. Read more below.

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