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Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU?

Related reading:

* Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...

* FTC's guidelines for firms with market power: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices, https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

Twitter is not large enough to be an anticompetitive concern.

Not a lawyer, but practically have looked into a few tech related cases.

Depends how you measure “big”, right? In the social media market, not so big. In the microblogging market, they are what… 95% of the market? I honestly don’t know what a judge would say, but that’s a one way of looking at it.

Maybe, but Elon Musk has a big enough political footprint to compensate.

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