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Two dozen small Wisconsin newspapers have sued Google and Facebook, claiming the firms grip on digital advertising threatens the publications existence and violates federal antitrust law. Their 40-page federal lawsuit recaps the historical role of a free press in America, the decline of the newspaper industry and technical aspects of how it says Google controls the sales, purchase and placement of digital advertising. Google’s dominance of the digital advertising marketplace threatens the extinction of local news journalism across the country, financial damage to publishers and a profoundly negative effect on American democracy and civic life, the suit states. It was among about a dozen similar complaints filed by newspaper publishers in other states, said Michael J. Fuller Jr., an attorney with the law firm leading the effort. ....
Wisconsin newspapers sue Google, Facebook April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MILWAUKEE (AP) A group of Wisconsin newspapers have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Google and Facebook s monopoly on digital advertising threatens the publications existence and violates antitrust law. The lawsuit claims the internet giants monopoly threatens the existence of local newspapers nationwide as well as a “profoundly negative effect on American democracy and the civic life,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday. Google unlawfully exercised monopoly power over the digital advertising market and illegally conspired with Facebook to engage in anti-competitive conduct, according to the filing. The two dozen newspapers include the Tomahawk Leader, Antigo Times and the Kewaskum Statesman. ....
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