Gannett sued Google, alleging the tech giant has used anticompetitive business practices to gain an illegal monopoly over the digital advertising market. “Google controls how publishers sell their ad slots, and it forces publishers to sell growing shares of that ad space to Google at depressed prices,” the filing says. “The result is dramatically less revenue for publishers and Google’s ad-tech rivals, while Google enjoys exorbitant monopoly profits.”
Source: Gannett sues Google over ‘deceptive scheme’ to gain online ad monopoly