Progressives warn against appointing tech insiders to key antitrust roles

Forty anti-monopoly groups sent a letter to the Biden transition team urging them not to pick candidates with ties to Big Tech for antitrust roles.

The letter comes on the heels of reports that Renata Hesse, who has advised Google and Amazon, is a front-runner for the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice.

“We believe that appointing antitrust enforcers with no ties to dominant corporations in the industries they will be tasked with overseeing — particularly in regard to the technology sector — will help re-establish public trust in government at a critically important moment in our country’s history,” the groups wrote.