Musk’s Twitter deal might fail, but not on antitrust grounds
It’s obvious to even the most novice of antitrust lawyers that the deal won’t be rejected on a market power basis, but that hasn’t stopped Washington’s left-leaning media and politicians.
The main US antitrust laws are the Sherman Act, which works against the formation of cartels, and the Clayton Act, which looks to prevent mergers and acquisitions that consolidate too much market power into one company.
