The Economist Google, antitrust and how best to regulate big tech

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October 7th 2020

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Google, antitrust and how best to regulate big tech

Antitrust cases over past behaviour have proved mostly ineffectual. So regulators are turning their attention to forward-looking rules

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Take three

Angry Kyrgyzstanis reject a tainted election—for the third time

The president has offered to annul the results, but protesters want him to step down

Bello

The growing importance of Latin America’s mayors

Decentralisation would cure some of what ails the region

Daily chart

America has yet to turn a corner on its opioid crisis

Overdose deaths rose by 5% in 2019. This year is likely to be even worse

Editing the book of life

A tool for editing genomes wins the Nobel prize for chemistry

For the first time, an all-female science team is honoured

Golden sunset

A Greek neo-Nazi group is smashed by the courts

The leaders of Golden Dawn, once Greece’s third-largest party, can expect long prison sentences

Johnson

The battle against racist language is too important to trivialise

The right and wrong targets in a linguistic struggle

Babbage

Nobel minds—the groundbreaking science honoured by the 2020 prizes

Our podcast on the science and technology making the news. This week: the importance of identifying HepC, we speak to winners, and, should the Nobels modernise?

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