The Department of Justice and eight states sued Google, claiming the internet giant has an illegal monopoly over online advertising, reports CBS.

It’s the fifth federal antitrust suit against the Alphabet-owned company since 2020, when the DOJ sued it over what the government claims is a monopoly in search.By buying up competitors and steering potential customers to its own products, continued the CBS report.

“Google uses its dominion over digital advertising technology to funnel more transactions to its own ad tech products where it extracts inflated fees to line its own pockets at the expense of the advertisers and publishers it purportedly serves,” the suit states.”Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Google has “severely weakened” competition in the ad tech industry.

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