Antitrust

The European Commission’s DMA action against Meta reveals a strategy of using data protection law principles to stretch competition rules beyond their intended scope—ultimately setting a compliance bar no gatekeeper can meet, infantilizing users, and selectively targeting successful integrated American platforms.

Germany’s attempt to enforce its own version of the EU’s Digital Markets Act represents another antitrust front against U.S. tech companies and exposes the problematic redundancy of European digital regulation.

Joseph Coniglio speaks about antitrust and artificial intelligence at the Antitrust Midwest Conference hosted by Informa Connect.

Deploying broadband infrastructure requires ISPs to incur steep upfront costs that they recoup over time in consumers’ monthly bills. Market concentration can help keep prices down by spreading out fixed costs among a larger number of customers.

Instead of distancing itself from the United States through regulation, the EU must prioritize a transatlantic tech alliance as the only viable way to compete with China and protect shared democratic interests.

Joseph V. Coniglio speaks about remedies in the DOJ v. Google search antitrust case at a panel hosted by the D.C. Bar.

As senior South Korean and U.S. officials prepare to reconvene in Washington, the Korean government’s quiet decision to shelve the Platform Monopoly Act while fast-tracking the Online Platform Fairness Act sends a troubling signal. Though framed as a more balanced alternative, the Fairness Act potentially represents another form of non-tariff attack on U.S. tech firms, posing an even greater threat to innovation, legal certainty, and the broader U.S.–Korea economic relationship.

The recent trial in FTC v. Meta shows the important role that economic experiments can play in establishing a relevant market in antitrust cases. The evidence provided by Meta’s expert economists significantly hampers the FTC’s definition of the relevant market and thus its overall case.

Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.

Joseph V. Coniglio speaks on the longstanding debate over whether liberty in commerce enhances or undermines broader human flourishing.