Washington, April 18 -- A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that Google violated antitrust law by monopolising the open-web digital advertising markets, marking another major setback for the tech giant in its antitrust litigation.
According to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the company "harmed Google's publishing customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web."
"This is a landmark victory in the ongoing fight to stop Google from monopolising the digital public square," U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division said that Google's unlawful dominance allows th...