U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to promote competition in the American economy. The executive order includes a shift toward a greater scrutiny of mergers, "especially by dominant internet platforms, with particular attention to the acquisition of nascent competitors, serial mergers, the accumulation of data, competition by 'free' products, and the effect on user privacy." It also encourages the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to establish rules on surveillance, data accumulation and "barring unfair methods of competition on internet marketplaces."
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