8个州组成的联盟对谷歌提起反垄断诉讼，Facebook也遭遇起诉

12月17日，一个由38个州组成的联盟对谷歌提起反垄断诉讼，指控谷歌涉嫌垄断搜索业务。在谷歌遭遇反垄断诉讼后不到24小时，一个由38个州和地区组成的两党联盟又提出了另一项诉讼，这次诉讼的重点是谷歌涉嫌垄断搜索市场。具体来说，这起由国家主导的案件指控谷歌利用其市场地位，以盈利为名，收集和使用数据，损害消费者利益。之前有关谷歌垄断的一起诉讼于10月份撤销。

Facebook也在上周遭遇了两起独立的反垄断诉讼：一个来自联邦贸易委员会，另一个由纽约公司letitiiajames牵头，并得到了47名其他总检察长的支持。两人都声称谷歌正在非法垄断社交网络市场。


在不到两个月内针对大型科技公司就有五起反垄断诉讼：谷歌三起，Facebook两起，这些大科技公司的律师在年末有的忙了。

On December 17, 38 US states and territories sued Google’s parent Alphabet for allegedly abusing market power in its search service. On Thursday, less than 24 hours after Google was hit with an antitrust lawsuit digging into its ad tech business, a bipartisan coalition of 38 states and territories served up yet another suit, this one focused on alleged antitrust violations related to Google’s alleged monopoly over the search market. Anticompetitive search abuse is also the main theme of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, which dropped in October. Specifically, the state-led case accuses Google of exploiting its market position to gather and use data to the detriment of consumers in the name of profit.

In other big tech antitrust news, Facebook was hit with two separate antitrust lawsuits of its own last week: one from the Federal Trade Commission and a second led by New York AG Letitia James with support from 47 other attorneys general. Both allege that Google is engaging in illegal monopolization of the social networking market.

That’s five antitrust lawsuits against big tech platforms in less than two months: three for Google and two for Facebook. Big tech’s legal team just got even busier.  source

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