Google has another antitrust probe to worry about, after 50 attorneys general said on Monday they’re opening a collective investigation into the tech giant’s dominance of online advertising.
The investigation is being spearheaded by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton; it includes all states except for California and Alabama, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Paxton announced the investigation on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
“[Google] is a company that dominates all aspects of advertising on the internet and searching on the internet as they dominate the buyers’ side, the sellers’ side, the auction side and even the video side with YouTube,” Paxton said, according to The Hill.