🚨MAJOR NEWS🚨

Today, a court issued remedies in a major antitrust case against Google’s unlawful monopolization of internet search and search advertising. This is an important step in a key antitrust case the Department of Justice has pursued since the first Trump administration.

We proved in court that competition had been frozen in place for two decades in internet search. Google’s tactics have excluded competition, harming consumers and slowing innovation. Today’s remedy order agreed with the need to restore competition to the long-monopolized search market, and we are now weighing our options and thinking through whether the ordered relief goes far enough in serving that goal.

🧵 Read on to learn more. 1/9 Most people know that Google is the dominant internet search engine. They know that it has the power to control the flow of information, censor and deplatform users, and bend commerce to its advantage.

But fewer know that for over a decade, Google has frozen competition out of the search market. Google maintained its monopoly by making sure no one else had a chance to compete.

That’s fundamentally contrary to the American values of free market competition that our economy is built on. 2/9