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20 Oct, 12 tweets, 5 min read
The Justice Department will accuse Google of protecting an illegal monopoly, officials said. It’s the biggest legal challenge to a tech giant in decades. nyti.ms/3jfB7wW
At a press briefing, the Justice Department hailed its antitrust lawsuit against Google as a “milestone” in efforts to foster competition, but emphasized that this isn't a stopping point — suggesting it may pursue other monopoly cases against tech giants. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
“Desperately needed and long overdue.” What business leaders, policymakers and antitrust experts are saying about the Google lawsuit: nyti.ms/34bArV4
The lawsuit comes two weeks after Democratic lawmakers released a sprawling report on tech giants, saying they had turned from “scrappy” start-ups into “the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons.” nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
This is the U.S. government’s most significant legal challenge to a tech company’s market power in a generation.

A victory for the Justice Department could remake one of the U.S.'s most recognizable companies and the internet economy it has helped define. nytimes.com/2020/10/20/tec…
Bill Baer, a former chief of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, described it as "the most newsworthy monopolization action brought by the government since the Microsoft case in the late ‘90s." nytimes.com/2020/10/20/tec…
Read the U.S. government’s case against Google. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
In a lengthy post on its website, Google responded that the lawsuit would elevate “artificially prop up lower-quality search alternatives” and argued that consumers use Google because they want to, not because they have to.
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Seven additional states may separately sue Google, on top of the 11 states that joined the Justice Department lawsuit, the New York attorney general announced. They are:

Colorado
Iowa
Nebraska
New York
North Carolina
Tennessee
Utah

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The attorneys general in the states that signed on to the Justice Department suit are all Republican, and this lawsuit will likely outlast the Trump administration (the DOJ spent more than a decade taking on Microsoft.)

Attorney General William Barr played an unusually active role in the investigation that led to the Google antitrust lawsuit, pushing prosecutors to wrap up their inquiries — and decide whether to bring a case — before Election Day. nyti.ms/2HhTST8
Google, which has some very particular rules about what workers can say about antitrust, had a message for employees today: Stay focused and stay quiet. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…

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