# Professor Lawrence White weighs in on the feasibility of the proposed merger of Taboola and Outbrain

1 Faculty News July 23, 2020 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031840.jpg?itok=6TvdRAWj)>

Excerpt from [Adweek](https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/taboola-outbrain-merger-global-scrutiny/) -- “'This is not the first time that this kind of issue has come up, and it wont be the last,' said [Lawrence White](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, who previously served in the antitrust division of the DoJ. 'All it takes is one major antitrust authority to say, ‘We see a problem,’ and the merger is dead,' White added."

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