Organized Money: California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Not Done With Ticketmaster

With the federal government largely stepping back from antitrust enforcement, who’s picking up the slack? California Attorney General Rob Bonta makes the case that state attorneys general are filling the void, and he’s got the caseload to prove it.

David Dayen and Matt Stoller speak with Bonta about his remarkable portfolio of active fights: the Ticketmaster/Live Nation trial (which the states pressed forward with after the DOJ settled), a price-fixing case against Amazon, social media addiction suits against Meta and TikTok, and a challenge to the Nexstar/Tegna local TV merger that could give a single broadcaster control over news in 70 percent of American households.

Bonta doesn’t shy away from describing what he sees in D.C. as corruption. He also has a direct message for anyone in Hollywood nervous about the Paramount/Warner Bros. investigation: It’s not illegal to talk to his office and they want to hear from you.

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