Tea in the courtroom: the gossipier side of the remedies trial over Google’s ad tech monopoly
By Seb Joseph
A courthouse in Virginia was meant to be the stage for a long-awaited antitrust reckoning. Instead, by most accounts, it occasionally played out like Succession: ad tech edition. Digiday wasn’t in the room but those who were described the remedies phase part legal showdown, part industry confessional. Hat tip to The Monopoly Report and the Check My Ads teams for their close coverage.
Here’s a rundown of the gossipy sub plots and quiet power plays that emerged from the courtroom.
The spaghetti defense: Google’s security vp Heather Adkins described its systems as a “bowl of spaghetti,” bringing up quantum encryption and undersea cables to argue that breaking things up would be too hard.
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