nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/6162c06c70bb5540 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250119s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/6162c06c70bb5540 doi eng 342 23 Robertson, Viktoria H.S.E. Author aut Protecting Democracy in the Digital Era - What Can Competition Law Contribute? Robertson, Viktoria H.S.E. Verfassungsblog 2025-01-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier At the dawn of 2025, liberal democracy is faced with a considerable challenge: Big Tech bosses appear to leverage their market power for far-reaching political influence, without any democratic legitimisation to do so. As someone working on issues of market power in the digital economy, one cannot help but wonder: shouldn’t competition law be able to contain (some of) this unseeming wielding of market power? CC BY-SA 4.0 Competition Law democracy DSA Musk Plutocracy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/protecting-democracy-in-the-digital-era/ raw object