Google says the suit is basically just kind of a warmed-over version of what Texas and other states filed several years ago. The Department of Justice has gone and found much more discovery in its case, he says. Google's fundamental argument is "it's not our responsibility to help our rivals," O'Mara says.
The Department of Justice wants Google to break up its advertising business. The Wall Street Journal’s Keach Hagey explains how the DOJ’s antitrust suit could reshape the internet.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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