Senior Policy Reporter
Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws.
When she's not writing about Congress, she's probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.
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In a new filing, DOJ says it’s “not trying to litigate in secret,” but that the court should be able to review classified information that led Congress to determine the divest-or-ban bill was necessary. In its own filing, TikTok says the government’s arguments for the bill are riddled with errors and omissions.
The internet service provider filed a petition with the highest court in its case with Sony Music and other labels, framing it as a fight for internet access. A jury sided with the labels in 2019, finding Cox liable for piracy infringement for failing to remove bad actors from its services, but an appeals court denied the $1 billion damages award.
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Citizen Lab and Access Now linked a “sophisticated spear phishing campaign” to a group associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The campaign has allegedly targeted exiled opposition figures as well as non-governmental organization staff in the US and Europe. Threat actors would allegedly email their targets, pretending to be a colleague or funder, the groups say.
The most likely targets to be spun out are Google’s Android mobile operating system or its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reports. DOJ’s antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter has long signaled he prefers structural remedies (legal speak for breakups) in many cases. Either way, Bloomberg says DOJ is likely to ask for a ban on exclusive contracts the judge found helped reinforce Google’s monopoly. A DOJ spokesperson said it’s evaluating the ruling and “No decisions have been made at this time.”
The Democratic National Convention will stream from Chicago next week on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, Axios reported. That’s in addition to Twitch, Amazon Prime Video, X, and on streaming operating platforms like Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon’s Fire TV. So if you’re hoping to avoid political content next week, good luck.