Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 1:52:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time

Subject: [EXTERNAL] JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVIEWING THE PRACTICES OF MARKET-LEADING ONLINE
PLATFORMS
Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 1:51:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: USDOJ-Office of Public Affairs
To:
Farivar, Cyrus (NBCUniversal)
The Department’s review will consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search...

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The United States Department of Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVIEWING THE PRACTICES OF
MARKET-LEADING ONLINE PLATFORMS
Review Focuses on Practices that Create or Maintain Structural Impediments
to Greater Competition and User Benefits
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that the Department’s
Antitrust Division is reviewing whether and how market-leading online platforms have
achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled
innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.
The Department’s review will consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses,
and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online.
The Department’s Antitrust Division is conferring with and seeking information from the
public, including industry participants who have direct insight into competition in online
platforms, as well as others.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in
ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan
Delrahim of the Antitrust Division. “The Department’s antitrust review will explore these
important issues.”
The goal of the Department’s review is to assess the competitive conditions in the online
marketplace in an objective and fair-minded manner and to ensure Americans have access to
free markets in which companies compete on the merits to provide services that users want.
If violations of law are identified, the Department will proceed appropriately to seek redress.

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