Facebook and Google Collusion in Ad Marketplaces
by Fnord666 from SoylentNews on (#5D16N)
hemocyanin writes:
The NY Times, in a Jan 17, 2020, article outlines new details in an anti-trust suit brought by ten states: Behind a Secret Deal between Google and Facebook. These apparently come from an unredacted version of the lawsuit filed in October 2020: Redacted Version. (I did not find an unredacted version)
From TFA:
"This idea that the major tech platforms are robustly competing against each other is very much overstated," said Sally Hubbard, a former assistant attorney general in New York's antitrust bureau who now works at Open Markets Institute, a think tank. "In many ways, they reinforce each other's monopoly power."
Some of the details outlined in the article:
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