Europe Just Fined Google $1 Billion Under the DMA — and the Trump Fight Has Only Begun On Thursday, the European Commission lowered the boom on Google: €890 million ($1 billion) in fines under the Digital Markets Act, making it the third Big Tech company slapped since the law started biting. This wasn't a theoretical warning. It was the Commission drawing a line in the sand with a very...

Google's Ad Tech Empire Is One Ruling Away From Getting Broken Up What Judge Brinkema Actually Ruled In April 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia handed the Department of Justice its second major antitrust win against Google, ruling that the company had illegally monopolized two markets at the heart of the open web: publisher ad servers...

The Google Ad Breakup Is Real: What the DOJ Forced Divestiture Means for Everyone Using the Internet On April 17, 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia looked at two decades of Google's ad tech dominance and called it what it is: an illegal monopoly. The ruling was unambiguous. Google "willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power" in the markets for publisher ad...