platform monopoly

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the condition in which a single digital platform dominates a market so thoroughly that it faces no effective competition, typically arising from the combination of network effects, data advantages, and economies of scale that characterise two-sided platform markets; platform monopolies are more durable than traditional industrial monopolies because their advantages compound over time — more users generate more data, which enables better services, which attract more users; the dominance of Google in search, Meta in social networking, and Amazon in e-commerce have prompted major antitrust investigations and regulatory actions in the EU, US, and elsewhere, renewing debates about the adequacy of competition law frameworks designed for industrial-era markets