"I've always said that Google is not a service. If everybody has to pay an organization, and it's impossible to establish differentiation," he says. "Between Google, Facebook, and Amazon, 40% of all the C flows through one of those three toll booths."
The Fed eases up on the brakes, Elon Musk looks for new ways to monetize Twitter, and Snap has another rough quarter. Also: Meta may have prevailed in a fight with the FTC. Today’s Friend of Pivot is Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the DOJ. He stops by to discuss Google, antitrust, and his agency's fight against monopolies.
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