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In previously unreported comments made in 2021, DeSantis said technology companies like Google “should be broken up” by the U.S. government.
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“They’re just too big, they have too much power,” DeSantis said. “I think they’re exercising a more negative influence on our society than the trusts that got broken up at the early 20th century.”
He added that large tech companies “are ruining our country. They’re a very negative influence. And so I think you need to be strong about it.”