The sun is shining on blue sky this week. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm

Megan McCarty Carrino.

The social media app Blue Sky is flying high this week as users disenchanted with Elon Musk's

X have fled that platform after the election.

That's just one of the topics for today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review.

We'll also get into big tech's big money lobbying effort to slow down a federal bill

to protect kids online. But first, the latest in the potential Google breakup. This week,

the Department of Justice proposed forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser. It's one

possible resolution to an antitrust case that has already ruled Google's

search business a monopoly. Here with more is Maria Curie. She's a tech policy reporter at Axios.

This is only one remedy of several that the government has proposed, and it is essentially saying

that one way to fix this issue is to have Google sell off Chrome,

which is obviously a huge way that Google makes ad money. But there are other proposals in play,

for example, blocking these contracts between Google and Apple to have Chrome be the default

browser is another example. And so we're still a long ways from seeing what actually

happens. You know, this is going to go through months and months of back and forth.

So speaking of months and months of back and forth, well, in two months, we will have a new

president, President-elect Donald Trump, hasn't really been super, you know, pointed about his position on this,

but he has expressed some skepticism about the idea of breaking up Google.

I mean, what do we know about how a new president could complicate these proceedings?

Not just a new president, but this specific one, right? So I think that President

elect Trump, in various policy areas, will kind of go back and forth and speaks off the cuff. And this is

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