Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros called Google and Facebook monopolies in need of regulation in a blistering speech that added his voice to a chorus calling for major technology firms to be reined in.

In remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Soros called the companies a “menace” and assailed the rise of “ever more powerful monopolies”.

He said “more stringent regulations” were necessary and predicted that their “global dominance” would be “broken”.

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