14 States Attorney General have joined in antitrust lawsuit aimed at two of the great war machines of ecumenical leftism, Facebook and Google. The companies are alleged to have colluded to assure the ad market remains uncompetitive and the prices remain favorable for them.
Google and Facebook CEOs colluded in online-ad sales scheme, unredacted antitrust lawsuit alleges
From www.marketwatch.com
2022-01-15 00:18:00
Excerpt:
Chief executives of the parent companies of Google and Facebook colluded to manipulate online advertising sales under a 2018 scheme nicknamed Jedi Blue and signed off on it, state attorneys general allege in newly unredacted filings.
The filings are part of a lawsuit filed in December 2020 by 14 state attorneys general led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, which charges Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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with “anticompetitive conduct.” Sections of the complaint that focused on interactions with Facebook parent Meta Inc.
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along with other details, had been redacted previously, but most redactions were removed Friday after an earlier ruling in the case and showed top leaders of the two companies agreeing to work together.
“Google understood the severity of the threat to its position if Facebook were to enter the market and support header bidding,”…
