Taylor Swift Debacle Rekindles Ticketmaster Antitrust Worries

When tens of thousands of Taylor Swift fans were unable to complete their orders for tickets in November for her coming New Eras tour, those legions of devastated Swifties were left with little recourse beyond denouncing Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s botched online ticket sales process and making tearful TikTok videos. But the company could still suffer plenty of hurt from the fiasco, which has left the US Department of Justice under intense pressure to fix what many say was a mistake in allowing Live Nation and Ticketmaster to merge in 2010. The agency has opened a new antitrust probe ...