The company is making its case at the European Court of Justice, the bloc’s highest court, on Tuesday after the regulator ruled that Google had unfairly used its dominance to make sure traffic on Android devices went to its search engine.
Google accused European Union antitrust watchdogs of blundering their way through a probe that culminated in a record €4.3 billion ($4.5 billion) fine for allegedly abusing the market power of its Android mobile-phone ecosystem.
Google is squaring off against regulators from the European Commissions today in the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Google has told the technology branch of the EU's European Commission that it will not comply with a new fact-checking law to counter disinformation that Republicans have argued amounts to "censorship.
After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant is opting out of a new EU law that requires fact checks.
Google has rejected the new European Union (EU) laws that require it to add fact-checking features to search results or YouTube.
Google is appealing a €4.3 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for allegedly restricting competition through its Android agreements. The company
It’s worth pointing out that Google has never actually offered any fact-checking services. So this is essentially just business as usual for the search giant. According to a letter acquired by Axios, it has privately signaled to EU lawmakers that it won’t be changing its practices, despite the pressure of upcoming legislation.
The EU Commission has completed its probe into X and it looks like a fine is on its way to the tune of millions of euros.
Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."
Google rejects EU's fact-checking requirements for search and YouTube, defying new disinformation rules. Google has reportedly told the EU it won’t add fact-checking to search results or YouTube videos, nor will it use fact-checks to influence rankings or remove content. This decision defies new EU rules aimed at tackling disinformation.