A media company that owns several newspapers in North Georgia has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and Google. The media company claims that the Big Tech companies have engaged in antitrust and monopolistic practices to a level that “threatens the extinction of local newspapers across the country.”
Times Journal Inc., a publisher that owns Walker County Messenger, Catoosa County News and a few other newspapers in northern Georgia, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and Google in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
The lawsuit referenced 2020 findings by the House Judiciary Committee from an investigation into digital advertising. The Committee found out that Facebook and Google’s "anticompetitive and monopolistic practices have had a profound effect upon our country's free and diverse press, particularly the newspaper industry."
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