On December 16, 2020, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google joined by nine other states, exposing secret agreements between Google and Facebook—including the “Jedi Blue” deal—to eliminate competition in digital advertising and maintain Google’s …
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Twenty Republican state attorneys general and governors, led by Texas, filed Texas v. Azar (later California v. Texas) in federal district court, arguing that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s zeroing of the individual mandate penalty rendered the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The …
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In 2017, Google’s secret “Project Bernanke” was in full operation—a systematic auction manipulation scheme that used insider information and algorithmic deception to advantage Google’s own ad-buying platform while harming both publishers and competing advertisers. The …
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