Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen US advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers
Spending federal $$ to support antisemitism violates several Trump EOs. — www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : When Matt Stoller claimed the Trump FTC would “continue the anti...
Sources: the US DOJ is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into whether Live Nation and AEG illegally colluded on concert refunds at the start of the pandemic
Bloomberg : X: @matthewstoller and @benbrodydc See also Mediagazer X: Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : A criminal antitrust probe of Live Nation-Ticketmaster? Yes please. https://www.bloomberg.com/.....
Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling to stop it from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store
but it's also being sued over it The Macalope / Macworld : Give up the App Store purchase fight, Apple, it's just not worth it Joe Sparrow / Music Ally : Apple approves Spotify app update - and appeal...
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools
www.theverge.com/news/650665/ ... Cori Crider / @coricrider.com : BREAKING: Google loses the adtech case, has unlawful monopoly over advertising tech. — HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopol...
FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook
meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook — Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all of this happened in S...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would stop Meta from facing an April 14 antitrust trial; he visited the White House on April 2
www.wsj.com/politics/pol... [images] Cooper Lund / @cooperlund.online : Swapping Musk for Zuck to run the government efficiency office when Zuck oversees the most bloated of the tech giants would be ...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u... Allie Shenkin / @shenkin : Not that anyone asked for a large experiment on the presumably-mollifying effects of porn on violence by teenagers, but looks like we're abou...
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms
blog.google/outreach-ini... #google #seo #legal [image] Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange : Okay, having read Google's proposed remedies in its antitrust case, they seem to me deeply unserious. ...
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years
no big Play Store changes just yet Nathan Drescher / Android Police : Google just won a reprieve in the Epic app store battle John Callaham / Neowin : Judge puts a temporary hold on a earlier decision...