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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Richard Hall

Bernie Sanders says Musk’s ownership of Twitter is a ‘problem’ and calls for more aggressive anti-trust laws

REUTERS

Bernie Sanders called Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter a “problem” and suggested that the US government should be more aggressive with anti-trust laws to break up big media companies.

“It’s a problem that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, that Elon Musk owns Twitter, that other billionaires own much of the media in the United States,” he said on the News Agents podcast, when asked about the business owner, who bought Twitter for $44bn in October last year.

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