Justice Dept. sues Google over digital advertising dominance

WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust suit against Google on Tuesday, seeking to shatter its alleged monopoly on the entire ecosystem of online advertising as a hurtful burden to advertisers, consumers and even the U.S. government.The government alleges that Google™s plan to assert dominance in online ads has been to œneutralize or eliminate rivals through acquisitions and to force advertisers to use its products by making it difficult to use competitors™ offerings. It's part of a new, if slow and halting, push by the U.S. to rein in big tech companies that have enjoyed largely unbridled growth in the past decade and a half. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]