Friday, April 24, 2026

Cade to begin administrative proceeding against Google over abuse of dominant position

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Consejo Administrativo de Defensa Económica, Cade) unanimously decided to reject closing the investigation and ordered the opening of an administrative proceeding against Google. The decision fully adopts the dissenting opinion of the agency’s acting president, Diogo Thomson de Andrade, who cited evidence of abuse of dominant position in the use of news media content, a practice aggravated by the introduction of generative artificial intelligence in search results.

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