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Sep 2023
58m 57s

Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter ...

The New York Times
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Is Google allowed to spend billions of dollars to make its search product the default browser? That is the question at the center of U.S. et al. v. Google — the most important tech trial of the modern internet era — and Kevin and Casey disagree on the answer. Then, a conversation with the journalist who spent the last two years shadowing Elon Musk. 
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