What Crackdowns on Big Tech Mean for Apple, Google, X: QuickTake

For years, the world’s biggest technology companies were largely able to resist government oversight. That’s changing fast.

The US Department of Justice and 16 attorneys general have sued Apple Inc., accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features on its popular devices. In Europe, regulators who suspect Apple, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to comply with new laws limiting their dominance of the digital economy have begun investigationsthat could pave the way for hefty penalties. Meanwhile, Meta’s Facebook, Alphabet’s YouTube and Amazon.com Inc. have been ...