Overview
- The European Commission found Google abused dominance by favoring its AdX exchange and related tools, distorting competition for advertisers and publishers.
- Regulators ordered Google to submit a compliance plan within 60 days to end conflicts of interest, with the option of structural remedies if behavioral fixes fall short.
- One report says Google would have 30 additional days to implement an approved plan after submitting it.
- Google says it will appeal, calling the ruling wrong and unjustified, while publisher groups that lodged the complaint urged changes that meaningfully alter behavior.
- President Donald Trump criticized the penalty as discriminatory and threatened a Section 301 trade investigation, as related U.S. antitrust cases proceed toward remedy hearings.