US antitrust hawks take on Big Tech as pandemic persists

Warren is among Democratic lawmakers pushing for antitrust enforcement of companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon. — Getty Images/TNS

WASHINGTON: Long before Covid-19 changed everything, progressives in Washington had begun pushing for a new era of antitrust enforcement in which the government would take on the power amassed by the captains of today's technology industry – companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon.

Now, Democratic lawmakers like Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island are placing that crusade in the context of the ongoing pandemic.