What the leaked FTC memos on Google really teach us

Politico did well for itself in producing five articles based on leaked internal Federal Trade Commission (FTC) documents related to the agency’s decision not to pursue an antitrust case against Google eight years ago. (See here, here, here, here, and here.) The articles tell a story of FTC lawyers, Facebook, and Amazon warning political appointees that Google was trying to leverage its successful search engine to build other products and to place its products prominently on Apple and Android phones.

Read Dr. Jamison’s complete blog post at AEI.