DOJ sues Google over its dominance in online advertising market(CNN) — The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of harming competition with its dominance in the online advertising market and calling for it to be broken up. By comparison, the next largest giant in online advertising, Facebook-parent Meta, generated $115 billion in 2021. (Tuesday’s suit targets a subset of Google’s ad revenue represented by display advertising, a roughly $32 billion business for the company.) On Tuesday, Kanter told reporters that Google abused “longstanding monopolies in digital advertising technologies” to give itself an advantage. It concluded, among other things, that Google was uniquely positioned to benefit from its powerful role in the online ad industry.
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