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Rumble accuses Google of illegal self-preferencing, tying in US antitrust lawsuit

By Max Fillion and Michael Acton
  • 11 Jan 2021 16:19
  • 11 Jan 2021 18:46
Rumble, a Toronto-based video-hosting platform featuring conservative content creators, today filed a US antitrust lawsuit accusing Google of giving preferential treatment to subsidiary YouTube.
Rumble claims Google manipulates search algorithms in YouTube’s favor, and it also echoes a landmark suit filed against Google by the US Department of Justice in

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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