The Department of Justice's choice of venue in U.S. v. Google1, an antitrust action alleging monopolization of advertising technology markets, grabbed the attention of the antitrust bar earlier this year.
Below see news-related suits and other action Google and Facebook face.
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⢠Publishers of 125 newspapers in 11 states filed or announced suits against Google and Facebook on Monday, claiming the tech giants have unlawfully monopolized the digital advertising market and engaged in an illegal secretive deal, nicknamed âJedi Blue,â to throttle competition.
Fourteen complaints were filed or announced by publishers from Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, said a press release from West Virginia-based Fitzsimmons Law Firm (see complaints).Â
Google, Facebook in crosshairs in new 125 US newspapers lawsuits
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The technological giants have been accused of unlawfully monopolising the digital advertising market
Publishers of 125 newspapers in 11 states in the US filed or announced lawsuits against Google and Facebook on Monday, US media has reported.
The technological giants have been accused of unlawfully monopolising the digital advertising market and found to be engaged in an illegal secretive deal, which goes by the alias “Jedi Blue” in a bid to thwart competition.
At last count, 14 complaints were filed or announced by publishers from Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware in the US. The claims come on the back of a January 2021 antitrust suit against Google and Facebook filed by HD Media, a West Virginia-based newspaper company that publishes the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Gazette-Mail and (Huntington) H
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On Monday, four news publishers, including Clarksburg Publishing Company (doing business as WV News), Brown County Publishing Company and Multi Media Channels, Gale Force Media, and AIM Media Midwest Operating, sued Google and Face for antitrust violations, particularly for their purported monopoly of digital advertising, causing newspapers to struggle for digital advertising, which may cause a “news desert” from disappearing newspapers because of decreasing revenue.
The Brown County Publishing Company exemplary complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, noted that the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law concluded an antitrust investigation into digital advertising that revealed that the defendants’ “anticompetitive and monopolistic practices have had a profound effect upon our country’s free and diverse press, particularly the newspaper industry.”