The federal judge ruled that Google is a monopolist in the online advertising. New York Times reported On Thursday, Judge Leoni Brinkem from the US district court in the Eastern District of Virginia said that the company violated the law in order to maintain its dominance in the field of advertising technologies.
“In addition to depriving competitors, the ability to compete, this exceptional behavior has significantly damaged the Google to the publisher, the competitive process and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open network,” the judge said.
The case is connected with lawsuit 2023 From the US Department of Justice and eight states. They accused Google of illegally monopolizing the advertising market and the use of this power to take more for more and take over a higher part of sales.
The decision follows the other in August, when a federal judge Decided that Google monopolizes online owlJudge Amit Mecht from the District Court of the United States in the district of Colombia said in 2024 that the company “is a monopolist and it acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” Judge Mehta considers the request of the Ministry of Justice to defeat the company based on this decision.
Now the judge of Brinkem will encounter a similar decision on the dominance of the company in the amount of almost 1.9 trillion dollars in advertising. The lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice has already asked the court to make the Google Sell Pollions of his business for advertising technologies. Most of the future company will rely on the fact that these two judges decide in the coming months.
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