By Maria Júlia Baumert ( November 14, 2026, 00:23 GMT | Insight) -- Brazil’s competition authority should look beyond explicit pricing conduct and examine platform design when investigating possible exploitative abuses in digital markets, an authority official said, and dependency between platforms and businesses that rely on them can provide a basis for intervention even when the conduct doesn’t involve traditional excessive pricing.Brazil’s competition authority should look beyond explicit pricing conduct and examine platform design when investigating possible exploitative abuses in digital markets, the president's chief of staff, Paulo Henrique de Oliveira, said....
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