Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s top antitrust regulator, hasn’t been able to take down Big Tech—but she has a theory of how to tame it.
- Franklin Foer
- The Atlantic
The election of Donald Trump, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that followed, set in motion what some have called the tech-lash—a bout of intense skepticism directed toward Silicon Valley.
But long before it became fashionable to jeer Mark Zuckerberg, there was the Danish regulator, Margrethe Vestager.
As the European commissioner of competition, a post she has held since 2014, she has fined Google billions for its bullying behavior toward rivals.
Her investigations have shut down tax-avoidance schemes deployed by the likes of Apple and…