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Don’t look now, but Google is in trouble. The end of 2020 has brought with it a flurry of lawsuits targeting the tech giant’s allegedly unlawful business practices.
In late October, the Justice Department pursued antitrust charges for “[using] anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising,” according toThe Wall Street Journal.
This month, two separate coalitions of attorneys general from dozens of states have also filed suits for similar reasons. The question now is if prosecutors can win their antitrust cases.
There are two parts to winning a modern antitrust case: proving that there is a monopoly and proving that the monopoly in question unfairly harms the market and came about through predatory means.