Modern Foreign Experience of Antimonopoly Regulation of Digital Companies and Internet Platforms

The paper considers peculiarities of competition in modern digital markets, characterizes digital platforms as important elements of currently developing economic and social ties, and also examines the antimonopoly regulation of the activities of large digital companies in the United States and the European Union. Based on the practice of antimonopoly regulation that has developed in economically developed countries, the author concludes that digital companies are quite active in influencing markets in order to gain unjustified competitive advantages; the company's market power increasingly determined by such new features as network effects, large databases, and intellectual property objects. This requires antimonopoly authorities to improve continuously methods of countering digital monopolies, including coordinating efforts at the international level. The author also makes some suggestions on the development of antimonopoly regulation.