Google hit with $3.5 billion fine for unfair advertising practices

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Google hit with $3.5 billion fine for unfair advertising practices  European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, but the bloc's latest move to crack down on Big Tech companies drew outrage from President Donald Trump  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/06/google-hit-with-35-billion-fine-for-unfair-advertising-practices  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00European Union regulators Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc's competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services.

00:13It marked the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company.

00:16The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's executive branch and top antitrust enforcer also ordered the U.S. tech giant to take steps to stop conflicts of interest along the advertising technology supply chain.

00:31Google said the decision was wrong and that it would appeal.

00:35The decision was long overdue, coming more than two years after the European Commission announced antitrust charges against Google.

00:42U.S. President Donald Trump called the fine unfair and threatened to hit the EU with punitive customs duties.

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