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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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    'Wall Street Loves Layoffs': Rich Investors Demand More Carnage as Tech Slashes Jobs

    One pro-worker coalition called Amazon's recent job cuts "sacrificial symbols for Wall Street."

    Jake Johnson
    Jan 24, 2023

    Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other major tech companies have moved in recent days to lay off tens of thousands of employees, slashing jobs across the board amid mounting fears of a Fed-induced recession.

    But the sweeping job cuts—more than 18,000 at Amazon, 10,000 at Microsoft, and 12,000 at Google—were apparently not enough to satisfy ultra-rich investors, some of whom have taken large stakes in tech companies with the intention of forcing layoffs and other cost-cutting as a way of boosting profits.

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    Report Shows Google, Other Ad Networks Fund and Profit From Climate Disinformation Sites

    "We have to stop this industry of opaque ad networks from propping up the dark corners of the internet," said one campaigner, calling the study "further proof that tech companies can't be trusted to self-regulate."

    Jessica Corbett
    Oct 20, 2022

    Just weeks away from the COP27 summit in Egypt, a report released Wednesday called out major online advertising networks for "actively funding and actively profiting from climate disinformation in the United States."

    "Google must stop amplifying and enabling advertising on disinformation sites that pollute conversations on the climate crisis."

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