Google filed a motion Friday in federal court in Virginia asking for the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it to be dismissed. In January 2023, he accused the company of monopolizing digital advertising technologies through “anti-competitive and exclusionary conduct.” By tech-antitrust-case-before-trial?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter–tech&sref=10lNAhZ9″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Bloomberg;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>Google is now seeking summary judgment to prevent the case from going to trial in September as planned.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland he said at that time The lawsuit announced for the first time that Google “has used anticompetitive, exclusionary and unlawful conduct to eliminate or seriously diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies.” The lawsuit alleges that Google controls digital advertising tools to such an extent that it “pockets on average more than 30 percent of the advertising dollars that flow through its digital advertising technology products,” according to a press release from the agency last year.
Google now argues that the DOJ has not shown that the company controls at least 70 percent of the market, which some previous cases have used as a threshold to qualify as a monopoly, and that the agency “created markets specifically for this case.” ,” according Bloomberg, excluding its main competitors such as social media platforms. The company also claims that the Justice Department's case goes “beyond the boundaries of antitrust law.” tech-case-2024-04-26/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Reuters;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>Reuters reports.
