Newspapers and social media platforms that agree to deprioritize misinformation could be violating US antitrust law if they exclude rivals or lead to anticompetitive effects, the Justice Department says in a new legal filing.
President Donald Trump’s DOJ Antitrust Division filed a statement of interest Friday in an existing lawsuit, Children’s Health Defense et al. v. Washington Post et al., to weigh in with its interpretation of how antitrust law can apply to what it describes as “viewpoint competition.” The government doesn’t take a stance on the merits of the facts in this particular case, but says it’s important for the court to recogn …
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