{"id":29701,"date":"2020-12-03T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:20:18","slug":"impending-antitrust-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29701","title":{"rendered":"IMPENDING ANTITRUST SUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York is leading a group of states in a Facebook antitrust investigation and the states plan to sue the tech giant next week, <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uqhmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhyngcyw_qvnmggswstmfnpnspfvh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uqhmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhyngcyw_qvnmggswstmfnpnspfvh.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607124084651000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMACUQ_4PZwFCk6_DF5l754h1mlw\">Reuters reported Thursday<\/a>, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>The state-led complaint would be the second major lawsuit filed against a major tech company in the U.S. this year, following the Justice Department&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akbsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmbhylby_qvnmggswstmfnpnspfvh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/akbsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmbhylby_qvnmggswstmfnpnspfvh.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607124084651000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGS4EnlwE23KahBu_5oVftwqibAQg\">lawsuit against Google<\/a>\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 states plan to sign the lawsuit, a source told Reuters. The source did not name which states will be part of the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for Facebook and the New York attorney general\u2019s office declined to comment to Reuters, and the spokespeople did not immediately respond for comment when contacted by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Details of what the states plan to include in the complaint is not known, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York is leading a group&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29702,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions\/29702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}