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In this Oct. 20, 2015 file photo is signage outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The owner of the Daily Mail website is suing Google, saying the tech companyâs dominance in online advertising has harmed its business. The suit, filed Monday in federal court in New York, says Google publishes publishersâ search results if they donât sell enough ad space through Google.Â
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From staff and wire reports Apr 20, 2021
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.”
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Commissioners Look to Receive Cares Act Funds
By Rick Loy - Staff Writer | Mar 3, 2021
The County Commissioners met Feb. 23, 2021 at the Commission Office in New Martinsville.
Commission President Lisa Heasley called the meeting to order following the Pledge of Allegiance. All Commissioners were present to conduct business on a light agenda.
First order of business was the approval by unanimous vote to accept the minutes from the previous session held February 16.
The next item on the agenda was a telephone call from Clayton Fitzsimmons of Fitzsimmons Law Office inquiring if Wetzel County Commission had applied and received all the Care Act Funds they are entitled to.