Bloomberg Law
May 21, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

Mnuchin Urges Antitrust Review of Big Tech After Google Report

• ‘60 Minutes’ highlights frequent Google critics in EU, U.S. • Treasury secretary speaks in CNBC interview early Monday

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the Justice Department to review the power that large technology firms such as Google have over the U.S. economy.

A “60 Minutes” segment on Sunday devoted to assertions that Alphabet Inc.’s Google wields a destructive monopoly in online search hammered home the notion of the company’s dominance during a time of heightened public concern with technology giants. The report didn’t include new allegations about the company.

“These issues deserve to be reviewed carefully,” Mnuchin said in a CNBC ...

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