What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Will Google Get Broken Up?
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it is suing Google over its ad technology. What do they contend Google has been doing? And does this mean Alphabet is headed for a Bell Telecom-style bust-up?
Guest: Leah Nylen, reporter covering antitrust for Bloomberg News
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 0:34.7 | Today, the Department of Justice, joined by eight states, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Google. |
| 0:48.2 | When the news broke on Tuesday that the government was suing Google over its ad technology, I immediately thought of |
| 0:55.1 | Leah Nyland. She's a Bloomberg news reporter who covers antitrust, and I don't think it's an |
| 1:01.0 | exaggeration to say she lives and breathes this stuff. Her Twitter name is Leah Antitrust |
| 1:07.0 | but Verify Nyland. So on Wednesday, I called her up. |
| 1:11.5 | What's the sports analogy for this case? |
| 1:14.3 | Like, is this your Super Bowl, your World Series? |
| 1:18.2 | What is it? |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, I mean, this is more like the Olympics. |
| 1:23.6 | Really? |
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