200 newspapers are suing Google and Facebook

Such as he says Axios, 200 newspapers are suing Google and the , arguing that they manipulate the advertising market in ways that directly harm their companies.

The lawsuits, which are managed by a lawyers and law firms, are filed on behalf of approximately 30 different companies. These companies in turn represent approximately 200 separate newspapers across the US. Google, facebook, iguru

Print media blame Google and Facebook for monopolizing the digital market through illegal practices. In this way, they seek to "recover previous financial losses of the newspapers", essentially asking for payments commensurate with the that they have lost over the years.

"These companies are more powerful than Standard Oil in its heyday, so no one wants to be the first to sue them," said Doug Reynolds, chief executive of HD Media, one of the companies that filed the lawsuit. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Reynolds said: "We felt the political and legal climate was moving in our favor and we were ready to move on."

It should be mentioned that these lawsuits were probably expected, as print media has not been doing so well lately. A study of last year it showed that the revenue from of the industry decreased by 62% in the last decade, from 37,8 billion dollars in 2008 to $14,3 billion in 2018. Daily newspapers have dropped circulation from 50 million in 2007 to about 28 million in 2018.

Companies like Google, meanwhile, have played a very large role since they manage all online advertising. Only in 2020, the parent of the Alphabet company earned $183 billion, of which more than 80% came from its advertising business, reports CNBC.

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