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Google has force-fed us ads

Now an antitrust case could change the internet forever by Julia Stoyanovich The feds are coming after Google. In January, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the technology giant monopolized the lucrative space of digital advertising. A sure-to-be ...

Facebookopoly: Meta’s info empire

by Seth David Radwell In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to 2.89 billion users worldwide, making it the largest social network by 600 million users. A recent Pew Research study ...

Google antitrust lawsuit can set precedent for<br>tech monopolies

It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, but these were joined by New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut Thursday in filing suit against Google parent ...

Grocery store monopolies are bad news for shoppers

by Rebecca Wolf American families are heading into the end-of-year holidays facing sticker shock in the grocery aisles. Prices have jumped 13% over the past year, with even larger increases for staples like eggs, chicken and pork. Although inflation decreased slightly in October, it ...

Fighting for a fair deal for farmers

by Anthony Pahnke Denouncing corporations is easy. Using actual policy tools to hold them accountable and check their power is more difficult. Yet this is precisely what the National Farmers Union  is pushing the Biden administration to do. In late September, the NFU began ...