TPA Responds to DOJ Lawsuit Against Google

For Immediate Release                                                 Contact: Abigail Graham: (202) 417-7235

January 24, 2023                                                      

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) filed its second antitrust suit against Google. The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) highlights the DOJ’s latest suit as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

In response, TPA Executive Director, Patrick Hedger, offered the following comment:

“The DOJ is wasting taxpayers’ time and money pursuing expensive and protracted anti-monopoly litigation against a firm that is increasingly losing ground to its competitors, including those based in China. In the last five years, Google’s market share has fallen from 38 percent to 26 percent of the online advertising market. This is a 32 percent drop in just five years, and does not consider the broader advertising sector where Google competes with countless other media firms.

“The Biden administration and other antitrust hawks also routinely fail to consider how firms such as Google enhance competition downstream of their business, allowing smaller firms with limited advertising resources to find customers only their larger rivals used to reach. This lawsuit is just another example of this administration looking for a large company to needlessly bully for no reason other than to assert its own dominance.  It is clear that competition is working, and that this lawsuit is a waste of time and money.”

###

Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy.