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    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    "Never before has a single private institution concentrated so much power and control over so many corners of our nation's political economy," said one anti-monopoly expert.

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 24, 2023

    Anti-monopoly advocates on Tuesday praised the Biden administration and eight states for launching a federal antitrust lawsuit that could break up Google, which is accused of illegally dominating the digital advertising market.

    "Competition in the ad tech space is broken, for reasons that were neither accidental nor inevitable," states the complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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    Concerns Over Disinformation Grow After Musk Relaxes Twitter Ban on Political Ads

    Critics expressed concern about the social media giant serving as "a major new forum for massive amounts of money to be spent to influence politics."

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 04, 2023

    As advertisers depart Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk's recent takeover, the billionaire owner continues to shake up the social media platform, which on Tuesday relaxed a ban on political and issue-based advertising put in place for over three years.

    When then-CEO Jack Dorsey announced the ban in October 2019, he explained that "this isn't about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today's democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle."

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