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Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market

by akashshah87 on 12/16/20, 11:18 PM with 19 comments

• by dang on 12/17/20, 12:38 AM

  This is currently the #1 story on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718.

  We'll merge (most of) the comments thither.

• by ketamine__ on 12/16/20, 11:57 PM

  My opinion of Ken Paxton might be different had he not attempted to overturn the results of the presidential election. Is this suit just as frivolous?

• by pavlov on 12/17/20, 12:21 AM

  Suit filed by the same Texas AG who recently asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the election results of four other states. Same standard of evidence?

• by jfoster on 12/17/20, 12:17 AM

  The HN title is hugely misleading, because it drops "Texas says".

  I would change it to "Google, Facebook allegedly had illegal deal to rig ad market"

  Sometimes this would be a technicality, for example where it's beyond much doubt, but in this case it seems that it's far from proven, so far.

• by joshl325 on 12/17/20, 12:24 AM

  https://twitter.com/TXAG/status/1339283520099856384?

  "Texas takes the lead once more!"

  I can never understand why do they have to do that. Creating us vs them mentality for everything.