Google lost its first antitrust case, so what happens next?
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Google might be having a big Pixel phone event next week, but this week the company had to reckon with a major loss to the Department of Justice, who found the company liable for violating US antitrust law.
Naturally we had to break the entire case down on The Vergecast. So Lauren Feiner, who covered the case, and Alex Heath, who has been reporting on the reactions from the tech world, joined Nilay and myself to cover the best bits of the judge’s decisions and try to figure out what this all means.
Then, keeping with the legal theme, we talked about Elon Musk’s very silly lawsuit against advertisers who *checks notes* don’t want to advertise on X. That’s a thing they’re allowed to do! But it hasn’t stopped Musk from lobbing a lawsuit…