Google’s Advertising Dominance Now in the Crosshairs of Australian Regulators

Google’s New York office in lower Manhattan on Jan. 20, 2021. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times

Google’s dominance of the multibillion-dollar online advertising space is now under scrutiny by Australia’s competition watchdog, opening a new front in its battle to regulate the tech giant.

The Australian Competition Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) released the report (pdf) amid an ongoing effort to implement the News Media Bargaining Code, which will compel Google and Facebook to pay news media companies for displaying their content.