Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement after 10 state attorneys general filed suit against Google, targeting its monopolization of digital advertising markets, its collusion with Facebook to fix prices for digital ads, and its engagement in a panoply of anti-competitive practices to foreclose competition:

“Google’s current business model is a threat to democracy and the free press. Today’s suit makes clear that Google’s core corporate strategy has long revolved around monopolizing digital advertising markets and defrauding businesses, publishers, and consumers who have nowhere else to go,” said Sarah Miller, Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project. “It did so in collusion with Facebook — which is mentioned nearly 100 times in the complaint and is itself the target of numerous antitrust suits rightly seeking to break it up. Today’s case shows that Google should also be taken apart and aggressively regulated if enforcers are to restore fair competition and succeed in protecting businesses, entrepreneurs, journalists, publishers, and democracy itself from Google’s sprawling evil empire. Today’s suit, which calls for the imposition of structural remedies, is yet another critical step in that direction.”

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Economic Liberties works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.