Biden Justice Department Proposes Breaking Up Google in Historic Effort To Rein in Big Tech 

Google slammed the brief as ‘radical’ and ‘sweeping’ and pledged to take the case to court.

AP/Richard Drew
Google logos on various screens. AP/Richard Drew

The Justice Department is considering telling a federal judge to order Google to break off parts of its business as a solution to the company’s iron grip on online search. 

The proposal was just one of the remedies offered by the Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general on Tuesday in a 32-page filing submitted to the district judge, Amit Mehta, who found in August that Google has built an illegal monopoly. 

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