Josh Hawley, Richard Blumenthal Call for DOJ Investigation into Google Search
by Sean Moran Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that the agency’s antitrust investigation looks into Google’s search operations. The two senators noted in their letter that the European Union fined Google $2.7 billion for manipulating search results and a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation, which found that the search giant manipulated its search algorithm as early as 2012. The senators wrote: Google enjoys market dominance in online advertising, but it has that dominance in substantial part because of its...
by Sean Moran Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that the agency’s antitrust investigation looks into Google’s search operations....
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