Updated at 12:27 p.m. ET
The Justice Department on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google alleging the company of abusing its dominance over smaller rivals. It’s the federal government’s most significant legal action in more than two decades to confront a technology giant’s power.
Justice Department lawyers accuse Google of illegally using its monopoly power to stifle competition and hurt consumers through exclusionary agreements, including deals like the one it struck with Apple making Google the default search engine on the Safari browser on iPhones.
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