The agency
began holding open meetings after Chair Lina Khan was sworn in June. Next week,
the five commissioners will also consider whether to scrap guidelines put in
place during the Trump administration regarding deals that combine a company
with one of its suppliers.
The staff
report will include Big Tech acquisitions from 2010 to 2019, some of which were
not reported to antitrust enforcers because of their small size.
The Big
Tech firms, which also include Alphabet's Google and Amazon, have been under
antitrust scrutiny for more than two years. The FTC has sued Facebook while the
Justice Department sued Google. Others remain under investigation.
The agency
had sent demands for information to five big tech firms, including Microsoft,
in February 2020, saying that it wanted to probe whether any of the smaller
deals resulted in harm to competition.
The three Democrats and two Republicans on the commission will also vote on whether to issue a policy statement on privacy breaches by health apps and a process for accepting input on potential rules. © Reuters