David Lieberman, Author at Public Seminar

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Is the TikTok Deal Another Level of Trumpian Corruption?

Threatening China’s ByteDance may have forced a deal that benefits a campaign donor

September 15, 2020 • by David Lieberman

----- Here’s one more chore that Joe Biden should add to his Day One presidential to-do list: launch an investigation into whether the Trump administration improperly steered the U.S. operations of the world’s hottest new social media platform, TikTok, into the hands of one of his most important supporters, Oracle co-founder ...

Is the TikTok Deal Another Level of Trumpian Corruption?

An important debate over media mergers, or just another attack on CNN?

The first thing to recognize about the antitrust trial over AT&T’s $85 billion plan to buy Time Warner -- which begins this week at the U.S. District Court in D.C. – is how fundamentally weird the whole thing is. Few really understand why the Justice Department decided to challenge the deal ...

David Lieberman

The Weirdness of U.S. vs. AT&T

An important debate over media mergers, or just another attack on CNN?

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