The Invisible Stranglehold: How Google’s Ad Monopoly Finally Met Its Match

In a rare blow to Big Tech impunity, a federal judge finds Google guilty of rigging the ad game, exposing the decade-long shell game that suffocated the open web. Even Trump’s DOJ couldn’t save them.

For more than a decade, Google quietly but methodically rigged the digital advertising game. Now, a federal judge has finally called it what it is: an illegal monopoly. In a sweeping 115-page decision, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema found that Google willfully manipulated the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges, two critical layers of…