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Dozens of Attorneys General are on the verge of officially launching separate antitrust probes starting next week in Facebook and Google, according to Alphabet, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people close to the case.
The Google survey is expected to be announced Monday at a press conference outside the US Supreme Court, according to the newspaper.
The investigation, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and a bipartisan group of nearly three dozen state attorneys general, will examine Google's impact on digital advertising markets, focusing on information potentially harmful to consumers and the choice of advertisements.
At the same time, an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, with a group of overlapping bipartite attorneys general, is organizing a Facebook investigation, the newspaper reported.
"The attorneys general concerned are concerned about the control of personal data by large technology companies and hold them responsible for anti-competitive practices that endanger privacy and consumer data," James told the Journal.
This comes at a time when technology giants are already under federal review.
Facebook and Google did not respond to FOX Business's request for comment at the time of publication.
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