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DOJ files antitrust lawsuit against Google

About time.

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The Justice Department filed a historic and long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Google over its allegedly anti-competitive business practices, especially how it has used its search dominance in the online advertising arena to defeat its competitors, a senior DOJ official confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

The federal lawsuit, first reported on Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, was filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C. The Justice Department’s civil case against Google was signed by 11 state attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas.

The Justice Department and many state attorneys general have been investigating the tech giant for more than a year, focused on the anti-competitive conduct in Google’s online advertising business fueled by its dominance in the search engine and search advertising sphere, connecting online publishers and advertisers to hundreds of millions of users as Google controls around 90% of global searches.

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13 Comments on DOJ files antitrust lawsuit against Google

  1. “The Justice Department’s civil case against Google was signed by 11 state attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas.“

    The above is a list of states that George Soros will be spending billions on the next AG election.

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