From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny Sea, and this is the Daily.

Last week, the Justice Department took aim at Apple. It was the latest and most

sweeping in a series of anti-monopoly cases against the Titans of Silicon

Valley.

Today, my colleague David McCabe,

on the United States versus the iPhone. It's Tuesday, March 26th. So David, there was big news last week out of Washington and that was that the

US government filed suit against Apple and this is just one in a series of cases that the government is making against big tech.

You know, the last time you and I talked of course, Google was the one that was going on trial. So tell me about this case against Apple.

So for five years the federal government through the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission

has been pursuing these investigations and ultimately bringing lawsuits into whether the biggest tech companies have broken antitrust laws.

And these are laws that are designed to stop companies from throwing their power around.

And they have brought a state of these lawsuits.

They sued Google for abusing monopolies in online search

and advertising technology.

They've sued Meta, which owns Facebook

for allegedly stamping out nascent competition

when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp, and the government sued Amazon for allegedly squeezing

the third-party merchants that use its site.

And while the individual allegations in each one of these lawsuits varies, the basic argument

is this, that these companies have illegally maintained monopolies or otherwise subverted competition,

that it's been bad for the economy, it's reduced choices for consumers, it's limited

innovation and it's led to higher prices.

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