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Senior Policy Reporter

Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws.

When she's not writing about Congress, she's probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.

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Why Epic’s lawsuit against Apple just won’t quit

Lauren Feiner

May 28|

Lauren Feiner May 28

TikTok will have its day in court this fall.

Oral arguments in its case against the federal divest-or-ban bill will be scheduled for this September, according to an order from the DC Circuit Court. That’s just months before the initial January 19th deadline its Chinese owner ByteDance has to sell the app or face a ban. The clock keeps running unless the court says otherwise.

DC Circuit Court order

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Lauren Feiner May 24

Beware of messages from “Geek Squad.”

The Federal Trade Commission says Best Buy and its Geek Squad topped the list of most frequently impersonated companies by scammers in 2023. With 52,000 reports of fraud, consumers lost $15 million to those scams.

But scammers made the most money from impersonating Microsoft, according to the report, which found 7,000 reports of fraud and $60 million total losses.

FTC chart on most frequently impersonated companies by scammers

Federal Trade Commission

Google waves around a cashier’s check in an attempt to avoid a jury trial

Weirdly, experts say the DOJ’s demand for a jury trial in the Google ad antitrust lawsuit is just as strange.

Lauren Feiner

May 24|

Policy

The US government is trying to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

Lauren Feiner

and Jess Weatherbed

May 23|

Policy

Lawmakers debate ending Section 230 in order to save it

Lauren Feiner

May 22|

Lauren Feiner May 21

The US is already preparing for 6G.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is seeking comment on how the US can support the development of the next generation wireless network. Although it’s a super early procedural step and it feels like we just got 5G, we could be at the halfway mark to a new generation — they tend to launch every decade, and it’s been about five years since 5G began rolling out.