Washington’s effort to split up Big Tech groups is faltering after setbacks in several big monopoly cases that cast doubt on the government’s strategy to rein in some of the world’s biggest companies.
Federal enforcers have over the past year struggled to convince judges to order tech groups, including Google and Meta, to spin off large parts of their businesses, such as the Chrome browser and the social media platform Instagram.
This drive to break up some of the largest US companies, which began during the first Trump administration and expanded under Joe Biden, marked the biggest challenge in decades to the tech industry’s alleged anti-competitive behaviour.