Google, Facebook to be Hit with State Antitrust Probes
Dozens of state attorneys general are set to formally launch separate antitrust probes starting next week into Facebook and Alphabet’s Google unit, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Google probe is expected to be announced Monday at a news conference outside the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the Journal.
The investigation, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with a bipartisan group of about three dozen state attorneys general, will examine Google’s impact on digital advertising markets, focusing on potentially harmful information provided to consumers and ad choices.
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James, with an overlapping bipartisan group of attorneys general, is organizing a probe into Facebook, furthering the conversation of “unchecked power of large tech companies,” the Journal reported.
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