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Regulatory Antitrust Scrutiny

Alphabet Inc. · 2026-09-18 · Importance 44 · Surprise 60

A U.S. federal judge issued a 106-page remedies decision in the Google advertising antitrust case after declining to order a breakup of Alphabet’s advertising business. The order requires Google to share additional ad-auction data with publishers and appoint an independent antitrust monitor to oversee its practices. Google Advertising represented 68% of Alphabet’s latest-quarter revenue, so the remedies could materially affect the company’s core monetization model and regulatory risk profile.

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