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• Is Google’s digital ad business a monopoly? The U.S. Department of Justice says yes.
• Google, Microsoft add 22,000 layoffs to tech-wide downturn

  Google and Microsoft are the latest tech companies undergoing significant layoffs in response to worsening conditions at the start of 2023.

  
• A legal battle over the YouTube Shorts name just took a step forward

  Shorts International, which controls the film brand known as Shorts TV, is trying to sue Google over the YouTube Shorts name.

  
• Misinformation is a “global challenge for society.” Google’s $13.2 million grant will support fact-checkers. 

  Google and YouTube are providing Poynter and the International Fact-Checking Network with a $13.2 million grant to combat misinformation.

  
• MrBeast was busy during World Kindness Day
• Democrat officials say YouTube is a path into the “incelosphere”
• After disappointing earnings in Q3 2022, how will Alphabet “realign resources” at Google and YouTube?
• Teens use TikTok as a search engine. Google is trying to win them back.
• TikTok just upped its video descriptions to 2,200 characters. Here’s why.
• YouTube and the Black List are supporting screenwriters of color with a $160,000 initiative
• YouTube records $7.34 billion in quarterly ad revenue, falls short of projections
• TikTok isn’t just challenging YouTube for views. It’s impacting Google search traffic, too.