Attorney General Merrick Garland will face consequences if the Department of Justice (DOJ) is found to have interfered with the release of its Investigator General’s report on DOJ’s activities on January 6, a letter led Wednesday by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said.
The DOJ and Google have wrapped up their arguments in the high-stakes antitrust trial against the internet giant, with closing arguments scheduled for November.
An expert witness called by Google in its ongoing antitrust trial has asserted that the tech giant does not hold monopoly power over the advertising market, contradicting claims made by the DOJ.
Former President Donald Trump criticized the FBI for how it is handling the investigation into the assassination attempts against him.
In an ongoing antitrust trial, Google is pushing back against the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations that it operates its ad business as a monopoly. In the face of emails and other internal documents laying out Google’s plan to crush rivals by increasing its stranglehold on the advertising market, one executive testified Monday that “We keep looking for ways to make products better.”
Google employees and executives attempted to hide potentially damaging communications from investigators by using auto-deleting chats and marking emails “privileged and confidential” as a regular course of business — sneaky moves that may backfire on the internet giant as the second antitrust trial against the company rages on.
As the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google continues, it is becoming increasingly clear that the judge must decide whether to believe what Google executives wrote in emails and chats or what they have said on the witness stand — like one witness who claimed his emails on crushing competition were “jet-lagged ramblings.”
Internal Google documents released during the ongoing antitrust trial against the tech giant have shed light on the company’s efforts to maintain its dominance in the digital advertising industry through exclusivity deals and tying its ad-tech businesses together.
Google is currently on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance in the digital advertising industry, which is valued at approximately $200 billion. Here are a the key points that emerged from the first week in the courtroom.
A top attorney for Google, currently defending the tech giant in a landmark antitrust trial, has been revealed to be a key advisor to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and political bias.
A former advertising technology executive at News Corp testified that the company considered moving away from Google’s advertising products in 2017 but ultimately decided against it due to potential revenue losses of at least $9 million. The testimony came during the second day of the latest antitrust trial exploring Google’s absolute dominance of the internet.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust trial against Google kicked off on Monday, with the opening day focusing heavily on the tech giant’s impact on publishers through its dominant position in the digital advertising market.
Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.
After nearly three months of silence, the U.S. Government has now appealed the June 13, 2024, pistol brace decision to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Matthew Taylor, the director of the upcoming film Government Gangsters, spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about the film – which is set to premiere at the Republican National Convention – the significance of it premiering while former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is in prison, and how it was very “soviet style.”
Boeing has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud charges related to the fatal 737 Max crashes, a move that will brand the aerospace giant as a felon but allow it to avoid a trial. The company is likely to face of fine of $243 million — a drop in the bucket compared to its $78 billion in annual revenue, which a victims’ lawyer calls a “sweetheart deal.”
The FTC informed the DOJ on Tuesday that China’s TikTok may be in violation of U.S. law on child privacy.
Attorney General Merrick Garland this week called for “attacks” against the Justice Department to stop, in a rare op-ed a day before the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
Federal regulators have reportedly reached an agreement to investigate the dominant roles played by Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia in the rapidly evolving AI industry.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday during a House hearing refused to say whether he would provide Congress with any Justice Department correspondence with local prosecutors going after former President Donald Trump.
FBI agents were authorized to use “deadly force” if necessary during the raid of Mar-a-Lago when seizing suspected classified documents, recently unsealed court filings reveal.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called Special Counsel Jack Smith’s documents case an “Election Interference Scam” after he recently admitted in a recent filing the FBI messed with boxes of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
DOJ prosecutors are examining whether Elon Musk’s Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, sources familiar with the matter said.
The DOJ has accused Google of encouraging employees to delete sensitive chat logs where they discussed the inner workings of the search giant’s business, including messages potentially revealing the company’s alleged anticompetitive practices and monopolistic intent in the search market.
The most significant antitrust trial in 25 years is drawing to a close in Washington, with Google making its final stand against the DOJ’s efforts to break the tech giant’s death grip on online search.
