EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Document Appears To Show Microsoft Helped Write Big Tech Bills
The original version of the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act that Microsoft apparently received notably included a much lower threshold for determining which Big Tech companies would be affected than the updated version, the whistleblower document showed. Whereas the latest version of the bill states that platforms with at least 50 million monthly active users would be subject to the antitrust regulations, the original version provided by the whistleblower set that number at 500,000. The monthly active users change exempts Microsoft’s services from being affected by the proposed reg...