{"id":1986,"date":"2021-11-30T00:17:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/standard-journal-others-suing-tech-giants-google-and-facebook-the-polk-fish-wrap\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:17:42","slug":"standard-journal-others-suing-tech-giants-google-and-facebook-the-polk-fish-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/standard-journal-others-suing-tech-giants-google-and-facebook-the-polk-fish-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Journal, others, suing tech giants Google and Facebook &#8211; The Polk Fish Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Sorry<\/strong>, an error occurred.<\/p>\n<p><span>Would you like to receive our daily news in your inbox?&nbsp;<\/span><strong>Signup today!<\/strong><br \/><i class=\"fas tnt-check\"><\/i><br \/><strong>Thank you <span class=\"username\"><\/span><\/strong>.<br \/>Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in.<br \/>Check your email for details.<br \/>Invalid password or account does not exist<br \/>Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password.<br \/>An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the e-mail address listed on your account.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fas tnt-lock tnt-fw\"><\/span> Secure &amp; Encrypted<br \/>Secure transaction. 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Google has vertically integrated itself, through hundreds of mergers and acquisitions, to enable dominion over all sellers, buyers, and middlemen in the marketplace.\u201d<br \/>Times-Journal Inc. also publishes the Marietta Daily Journal, Rome News-Tribune and Calhoun Times alongside a group of newspapers primarily located in north Georgia.<br \/>The attorney generals in more than 40 states have also filed lawsuits against Google and Facebook, the filing states.<br \/>The primary focus of the suit is a deal between the two companies codenamed \u201cJedi Blue\u201d in which Facebook agreed to not offer advertisers an opportunity to bid for prominent placement on its pages but use a Google ad server. In return, Google agreed to give Facebook preferential treatment.<br \/>\u201cGoogle and Facebook, archrivals in the digital advertising market, conspired to further their worldwide dominance of the digital advertising market in a secret agreement codenamed \u2018Jedi Blue,\u201d\u2019 the filing stated. \u201cThe two archrivals, who are sometimes referenced as operating a duopoly in the market, unlawfully conspired to manipulate online auctions which generate digital advertising revenue.\u201d<br \/>That agreement, the lawsuit states, is just one of the many ways smaller media companies have been harmed by the tech giants\u2019 actions.<br \/>The lawsuit joins at least 15 more filed by media companies around the country, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/Law.com\">Law.com<\/a> article. Those lawsuits also accuse Google and Facebook of monopolizing the digital advertising market to the detriment of multiple smaller local news companies.<br \/>According to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee report titled \u201cStacking the Tech: Has Google Harmed Competition in Online Advertising?\u201d newspaper ad revenue dropped from $49 billion in 2006 to $16.5 billion in 2017.<br \/>At the same time, Google\u2019s ad revenue has increased by approximately the same measure.<br \/>As a result the existence of the newspaper industry is threatened, the filing states.<br \/>Nearly 60% of newspaper jobs disappeared \u2014 approximately 30,000 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics \u2014 between 1990 and 2016.<br \/>\u201cAnd almost 20% of all newspapers have closed in the past 15 years, and countless others have become shells \u2014 or \u2018ghosts\u2019 \u2014 of themselves, according to the recent report by the University of North Carolina,\u201d the filing states.<br \/>\u201cThere is a clear correlation between layoffs and buyouts in the newspaper industry with the growth in market share for the duopoly \u2014 Google and Facebook,\u201d the complaint states.<br \/>The lawsuit states the companies\u2019 family of products, including Facebook Blue, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have \u201charmed the quality and availability of journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JBailey@RN-T.com<br \/>{{description}}<br \/>Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.<br \/><strong>Please<\/strong> disable your ad blocker, whitelist our site, or <a class=\"alert-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestgeorgianews.com\/users\/admin\/service\/purchase\/?referer_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.northwestgeorgianews.com%252Fpolk_standard_journal%252Fnews%252Flocal%252Fstandard-journal-others-suing-tech-giants-google-and-facebook%252Farticle_99731f10-5067-11ec-9188-abc172cb5354.html\">purchase a subscription<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestgeorgianews.com\/polk_standard_journal\/news\/local\/standard-journal-others-suing-tech-giants-google-and-facebook\/article_99731f10-5067-11ec-9188-abc172cb5354.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, an error occurred. 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