Google and Meta face antitrust investigations by EU, U.K. over secret ad deal

Google and Meta are facing two new antitrust investigations over a secret -- and possibly illegal -- ad deal. European Union and U.K. regulators have opened antitrust investigations into the two companies centered around their 2018 "Jedi Blue" advertising deal, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times report. The European Commission alleged that a 2018 deal between Google and Meta "may form part of efforts to exclude ad tech services competing with Google's Open Bidding programme, and ther...