08 MAR

Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook

Elizabeth Warren holding a microphone and waving while speaking to a crowd.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today proposed breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook as part of a plan to regulate tech platforms as utilities.

In a blog post, Warren said she’ll pursue the plan if she wins the presidency. The first part of the plan is legislation that would designate the companies as “platform utilities” and break them apart “from any participant on that platform.”

Warren wrote:

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