Investigations from state attorneys general and federal agencies are causing a rift between free market conservatives and the GOP's more populist voices
The most visible sign of the divide came last month when Americans for Prosperity, the political organization founded by conservative mega-donors Charles and the late David Koch, launched anine Republican and Democratic state attorneys general who are leading antitrust investigations of Google and Facebook.
Republicans have long been associated with more cautious antitrust enforcement, suspicious of the notion that the government should effectively choose winners and losers in the marketplace. But those views have become unmoored as animus toward the tech industry grows, observers say. Those bipartisan endeavors to regulate the nation's big tech companies have already shown signs of extending beyond antitrust, creating a headache for internet companies as they fend off, for instance, talks of amending laws that protect them from lawsuits over user-generated content.
"I support free markets, which is why this investigation is so important," GOP Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said at a
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