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2022

Google Has Made Millions Advertising Phony Government Handouts

“It’s just mind-blowing that on a platform like Google — which portrays itself as having gone above and beyond with ad transparency — you can pop up out of nowhere and run millions of dollars of blatant scam ads without raising any red flags,” said Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of the nonprofit Accountable Tech.

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Apr 17, 2025
Google’s Ad Dominance Is Illegal, Federal Judge Rules

“'We’re excited to see such enthusiasm,' said Alison Rice with Accountable Tech, which targets the industry’s surveillance advertising business model. 'The mechanism and the model that Big Tech has been using is taking advantage of the power that they have over this entire ecosystem to leverage nefarious designs and weaponize them in order to drive profits.'”

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Apr 17, 2025
Google has illegal monopoly in ad tech, US judge rules

Nicole Gill, co-founder of advocacy group Accountable Tech, called Brinkema's decision a "massive victory,"

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