Cuaca dingin yang luar biasa dan tekanan rendah ekstrem melanda Asia minggu ini.Salju tebal menyelimuti sebagian besar wilayah Jepang pada hari kemarin, Rabu, 25/01/2023. Sementara di Indonesia turun hujan disertai suhu dingin.
Hujan salju dan angin kencang di Jepang, memaksa ratusan pembatalan penerbangan dan mengganggu perjalanan kereta api. Satu orang meninggal akibat badai di sana.
Penjaga pantai mengatakan dua orang tewas dan sembilan hilang setelah sebuah kapal kargo tenggelam di barat daya Jepang pada Rabu pagi di tengah angin musim dingin yang ganas.
Ini adalah sekoci dari kapal yang tenggelam yang ditemukan saat pencarian korban berlanjut.
Di Afghanistan, setidaknya 124 orang tewas dalam suhu beku awal pekan ini, menurut laporan media.
PENDUDUK LOKAL, NAJEEMULLAH:
"Cuacanya terlalu dingin, kami mengalami cuaca yang sangat dingin. Orang menghadapi banyak masalah, tidak ada air, tidak ada gas, orang berusaha mengatasi tantangan ini."
Di China, CCTV penyiar negara menunjukkan rekaman sepeda beku.
Sementara pekerja kereta api di kota Yantai timur bekerja membersihkan salju tebal dari rel kereta api.
Suhu di Mohe, kota paling utara China, turun ke rekor -53 derajat Celcius - yaitu -63 derajat Fahrenheit, pada hari Minggu.
Salju lebat dan angin kencang juga melanda wilayah selatan Korea Selatan.
Di Jepang, maskapai penerbangan domestik membatalkan 450 penerbangan, sementara 490 area jalan raya diblokir dan 57 layanan kereta api ditangguhkan secara nasional, kata kementerian transportasi.
Cuaca pahit tersebut diperkirakan akan berlanjut hingga hari Kamis, 26/01/2023.
Turis berpose untuk foto di depan termometer yang menunjukkan -11,3 derajat Celcius (11,6 F), di Otaru, prefektur Hokkaido di Jepang utara pada 24 Januari 2023.
Tens of millions of people across East Asia braved a severe cold snap Wednesday as subzero temperatures and heavy snow brought travel chaos during the Lunar New Year holiday, with climate experts warning that such extreme weather events had become the "new norm."
South Korea has issued heavy snow warnings this week as temperatures in the capital Seoul fell as low as minus 15 degrees Celsius (minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit) and plummeted to record lows in other cities, officials said.
On the popular tourist island of Jeju, harsh weather led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights while passenger ships were forced to stay in port due to huge waves, according to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters.
'Norma baru'
Yeh Sang-wook, seorang profesor iklim di Universitas Hanyang di Seoul, menghubungkan gelombang dingin ekstrem di Semenanjung Korea dengan angin Arktik dari Siberia, menambahkan bahwa gelombang dingin di Korea Selatan tahun ini sebagian disebabkan oleh mencairnya lapisan es Arktik dari iklim yang memanas.
"Ada rekor pencairan tahun lalu dan tahun ini," katanya. "Saat es laut mencair, laut terbuka, mengirimkan lebih banyak uap ke udara, menyebabkan lebih banyak salju di utara."
Saat perubahan iklim memburuk, kawasan itu akan menghadapi cuaca dingin yang lebih parah di masa depan, katanya.
"Tidak ada (penjelasan) lain," katanya. "Perubahan iklim memang semakin dalam dan ada konsensus di antara para ilmuwan global bahwa fenomena dingin semacam ini akan semakin memburuk di masa mendatang."
Kevin Trenberth, dari National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) AS, setuju bahwa "peristiwa cuaca ekstrem adalah norma baru," dan menambahkan, "kami tentu dapat memperkirakan bahwa cuaca ekstrem akan menjadi lebih buruk daripada sebelumnya."
Ia juga mencontohkan siklus pola iklim El Niño dan La Niña di Samudera Pasifik yang mempengaruhi cuaca di seluruh dunia.
La Niña, yang biasanya memiliki efek mendinginkan suhu global, adalah salah satu penyebab cuaca dingin saat ini, katanya.
“Memang ada variabilitas alami yang besar yang terjadi pada cuaca, tapi… kita sering mendengar tentang fenomena El Nino dan saat ini kita sedang dalam fase La Niña. Dan itu tentu mempengaruhi jenis pola yang cenderung terjadi. Dan itu juga pemain," katanya.
Ukrainian troops attempted to cross the Dnieper River near Novaya Kakhovka in the small hours on Thursday, but were repelled by Russian forces, Vladimir Rogov, leader of the We Are Together with Russia movement, said.
On the morning of January 24, the Russian Armed Forces thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to cross the Dnieper in the area of Nova Kakhovka. As noted by the authorities of the Kherson region, up to 100 Ukrainian militants, six infantry fighting vehicles and three boats were destroyed as a result of fire damage. As Acting Governor of the region Vladimir Saldo pointed out, the Kyiv regime regularly makes unsuccessful attempts to force the Dnieper.
"This night, Ukrainian militants tries to secretly cross into our bank from the area of islands near Novaya Kakhovka. The intruders were met by fire of our soldiers - the reconnaissance traced the enemy movements, reported coordinates to artillery systems and opened fire," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Rogov, the battling continues.
Russian troops thwarted an attempt by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to cross the Dnieper in the area of Nova Kakhovka.
This was announced by a representative of the emergency services of the Kherson region.
“In the morning, in the Korsunk-Dnepryan area, there was an attempt to force.
The attempt failed.
Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle blew up on a mine, which the Ukrainian military themselves installed because of fears of an offensive by Russian troops
On the opposite bank, an accumulation of infantry fighting vehicles and manpower was found.
They were hit by fire.
The result: six infantry fighting vehicles, three boats, up to 100 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
In turn, the acting governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, said that Ukrainian armed formations regularly make unsuccessful attempts to force the Dnieper.
“Attempts to force the Dnieper or cross from the right bank to the left regularly arise, but they also regularly fail.
Because the entire territory, the entire floodplain of the Dnieper is almost absolutely densely controlled by our armed forces, ”he said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Recall that 5 km from Novaya Kakhovka is the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, where repair and restoration work is being carried out due to shelling by Ukrainian armed forces.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the past day in the area of Nova Kakhovka and a number of other settlements in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the LPR.
Also, in the Kherson direction, in the Antonovka area, a US-made AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar was destroyed.
In addition, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, during a briefing, said that operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command post of the 57th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the missile and artillery weapons depot in the areas of Artyomovsk and Novoukrainka Donetska People's Republic.
In addition, 64 artillery units were defeated in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 102 districts.
In addition, Russian Aerospace Forces aviation in the Kharkiv region destroyed a self-propelled firing system of the Ukrainian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system.
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Speaking about the situation on the contact line, he said that more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and a vehicle of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd territorial defense brigade were destroyed by aviation and artillery in the Kupyansk direction.
Slutsky explains that this category will include those people whose childhood was spent in four new regions of the Russian Federation (Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions) and fell on the period of hostilities during the NWO.
More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, an M-777 artillery system and two US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radars of units of the 80th and 95th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated in the Krasnolimansky direction.
More than 25 Ukrainian servicemen of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade, as well as an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, two D-20 and D-30 howitzers, and three vehicles were killed in the Zaporozhye direction.
“Offensive operations of the units of the Southern Military District continued in the Donetsk direction.
Army aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated units of the 25th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Seversk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Children of NWO
The LDPR will soon submit to the State Duma a bill introducing the status of "children of a special military operation," said the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky.
According to him, the document will allow the adoption of regulations on the introduction of benefits for them, systemic or one-time payments by analogy with the "children of war" group.
Slutsky explains that this category will include those people whose childhood was spent in four new regions of the Russian Federation (Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions) and fell on the period of hostilities during the NWO.
“Over the past nine years, almost a whole generation has grown up, whose childhood was spent under the explosions of these same shells with the inscriptions “Children of Donbass” and the threat of de-Russification.
We all remember it.
Today, hundreds of thousands of them have become citizens of the Russian Federation, they rely on us and the status that recognizes this category of our population, the right to compensation is the least that we can do for these children of the Russian world today, ”the press service of the party quotes him.
Explosions heard in Ukraine’s Cherkassy region
Explosions were heard on Thursday night in Ukraine’s Cherkassy region, the Strana media outlet reported, giving no further details.
An air raid warning was issued in the region earlier.
Explosions were heard on Wednesday evening in several Ukrainian regions. Air raid warnings were issued in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Nikolayev, Poltava, and Kharkov regions, and in Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Special operation, January 25th. The main thing:
The Ukrainian military does not reckon with anything, they created detachments and shoot at their backs, Putin said;
The Russian military did not allow Ukrainian DRGs to land on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
Deliveries of US tanks to Kyiv will become a "blatant provocation", the equipment will be destroyed, said the Russian ambassador to the United States;
Washington has unequivocally declared its desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Moscow, it is impossible not to notice the reality, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian Foreign Ministry;
The White House confirmed that the US will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, delivery will take months;
Germany will provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks, there will be 14 tanks in total, a representative of the country's Cabinet said;
Ukrainian forces are preparing for a counteroffensive, Biden said;
Kyiv is preparing a counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye direction, there are up to 40 thousand people near the city of Zaporozhye, Balitsky said;
Wagner units are advancing in Artemivsk, fighting is taking place on the outskirts and neighborhoods recently held by the Ukrainian army, Pushilin said.
Russian combat aircraft, missile troops and artillery struck over 70 Ukrainian artillery units at firing positions in the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Wednesday.
"In the past 24 hours, operational-tactical aircraft, missile troops and artillery of the Russian group of forces struck 79 Ukrainian artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 124 areas," the spokesman said.
Russian forces destroyed over 90 Ukrainian troops and two German-made self-propelled artillery guns in the Kupyansk area over the past day, Konashenkov reported.
Ukrainian nationalists do not reckon with anything - they created detachments and shoot their own in the back, Putin said
"In the Kupyansk direction, attack and army aviation aircraft and artillery of the western battlegroup inflicted damage by firepower on units of the Ukrainian army’s 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades in areas near the settlements of Masyutovka, Kupyansk and Gryanikovka in the Kharkov Region and Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic," the spokesman said.
"In addition, the activity of seven Ukrainian subversive/reconnaissance groups was thwarted in areas near the settlements of Olshana and Berestovoye in the Kharkov Region and Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic," he added.
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces destroyed over 90 Ukrainian troops, three armored personnel carriers, one motor vehicle and two German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery systems in that area, Konashenkov reported.
The footage of positions abandoned by Ukrainian troops in the recently liberated Kamianske (Zaporozhye region)
Russian aircraft and artillery struck Ukrainian army units in the Krasny Liman area, eliminating over 20 enemy troops and six combat vehicles over the past day, he said.
"In the Krasny Liman direction, army aviation strikes and artillery fire by the central battlegroup inflicted damage on amassed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 95th air assault brigade and 125th territorial defense brigade," the spokesman said.
"Over 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and four self-propelled howitzers (German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000, Polish-made Krab and also Msta-B and Gvozdika) were destroyed," the general specified.
Russian forces continued their successful advance in the Donetsk area, inflicting damage on the enemy over the past day, Konashenkov reported.
The crews of the Russian artillery self-propelled guns "Hyacinth" destroyed the clusters of Ukrainian militants during the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction
"In the Donetsk area, units of the southern battlegroup continued successful offensive operations, striking the enemy near the settlements of Zaliznyanskoye, Dubovo-Vasilyevka, Seversk and Pobeda in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the spokesman said.
Russian forces obliterated two Ukrainian ammunition depots near the communities of Razliv and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the general said.
"The enemy’s total losses in that area in the past 24 hours amounted to 60 Ukrainian personnel killed and wounded, one armored personnel carrier, two pickup trucks and a Msta-B howitzer," Konashenkov reported.
Russian forces gained more advantageous positions in their offensive in the Zaporozhye area, eliminating over 60 Ukrainian troops in the past day, he said.
"In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the eastern battlegroup gained more advantageous frontiers and positions in their offensive operations. In the past 24 hours, they destroyed over 60 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, two armored combat vehicles, one motor vehicle and one D-20 howitzer," the spokesman said.
Russian forces thwarted the Ukrainian army’s attempt to cross the Dnieper River and land subversive groups on its left bank, Konashenkov said.
"In the Kherson area, artillery fire thwarted the enemy’s attempt to cross over to the left bank of the Dnieper near the settlement of Dnepryany in the Kherson Region to land subversive/reconnaissance groups there," the spokesman said.
In addition, Russian combat aircraft and artillery struck the enemy’s reserves with a strength of up to a company tactical group on the right bank of the Dnieper near the community of Nikolayevka in the Kherson Region, the general said.
"As many as 30 Ukrainian troops, three boats and two infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed," the spokesman said.
Russia’s Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past day, Konashenkov reported.
"Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 plane near the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the spokesman said.
Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter over the past day, Konashenkov reported.
"Russian air defense capabilities shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter near the community of Novodarovka in the Zaporozhye Region," the spokesman said.
In the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in areas near the settlements of Spornoye, Berestovoye, Blagoveshchenka and Kirillovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. They intercepted four HIMARS rockets near the settlements of Pologi and Tarasovka in the Zaporozhye Region, the general specified.
In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 377 Ukrainian warplanes, 204 helicopters, 2,948 unmanned aerial vehicles, 402 surface-to-air missile systems, 7,627 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 988 multiple rocket launchers, 3,906 field artillery guns and mortars and 8,171 special military motor vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.
Viral video di medsos video yang memperlihatkan dua petani membuang dua kotak kayu berisi tomat ke jurang. Dalam caption video, disebutkan bahwa petani kesal lantaran harga jual tomat anjlok.
Video yang berdurasi 11 detik tersebar di sejumlah media sosial, terlihat dua petani menurunkan dua kotak kayu berisi tomat dari mobil pikap.
Wakil ketua Dewan Perwakilan Daerah (DPD) RI Sultan B Najamudin menyesalkan adanya video viral yang memperlihatkan sikap frustasi beberapa petani tomat akibat hasil panennya dihargai murah oleh pembeli.
Meski demikian, mantan ketua HIPMI Bengkulu itu menilai sikap petani tersebut merupakan bentuk protes terhadap kealpaan negara dalam tata niaga komoditas hortikultura di daerah. Artinya masih terdapat kekosongan mata rantai pasok produk hortikultura yang terintegrasi secara langsung.
"Peristiwa ini tentu sangat ironis jika melihat tingginya tingkat konsumsi bahan pelengkap makanan yang bersumber dari produk hortikultura. Padahal Masyarakat kita sangat doyan sambal dan saos tomat juga produk olahan tomat lainnya", ujar Sultan melalui keterangan resminya pada hari Rabu, 25/01/2023.
Menurutnya, kehadiran industri pengolahan dengan skala kecil di tengah industri hortikultura adalah mutlak adanya. Hal ini dibutuhkan mengingat karakter produk hortikultura yang mudah rusak dan sering terjadi over supplai.
"Pemerintah diharapkan mampu melihat potensi produksi hortikultura di daerah dengan memberdayakan masyarakat setempat sebagai pelaku industri pengolahan hasil pertanian. Kasus Tomat ini adalah contoh betapa sistem pengembangan hortikultura kita masih jauh dari standar industri yang terintegrasi di sektor hilir pertanian", tegasnya.
Kami mengapresiasi paradigma pengembangan potensi komoditas dengan pendekatan Hilirisasi selama ini. Tapi Paradigma hilirisasi pemerintah jangan hanya direalisasikan pada sektor tertentu saja.
"Sektor strategis yang menghasilkan produk pangan dan hortikultura juga membutuhkan sentuhan teknologi pengolahan yang memadai. Sehingga hasil panen petani dapat diolah langsung di area pertanian sebelum dipasarkan dengan nilai tambah yang optimal ke kota-kota", tutupnya.
Sebagai informasi, sejumlah petani di Pekon (Desa) Hanakau, Kecamatan Sukau Kabupaten Lampung Barat, membuang ratusan kilogram buah tomat hasil panen ke jurang. Hal ini terekam dalam sebuah video yang viral di media sosial.
Dalam video tersebut terlihat dua orang petani membuang satu peti tomat ke jurang. Selain itu, terlihat juga sejumlah peti berisi tomat matang lainnya yang berada di mobil pick up. "Tomat murah enggak laku, lebih mahal kotaknya daripada buah tomat," ujar salah seorang petani yang ada dalam video tersebut.
Dalam caption video tertulis bahwa petani kesal lantaran harga jual tomat jatuh. Kemudian diketahui petani tersebut berasal dari Desa Pekon Hanakau, Kecamatan Sukau, Kabupaten Lampung Barat. Pudin, salah satu petani, menjelaskan penyebab kejadian buang-buang tomat itu.
"Pasarannya lagi sepi, peminatnya kurang, sedangkan yang panen banyak, sekarang harga hanya Rp 800, nggak ketutupan sama modalnya," kata Pudin dikutip dari Antara pada Rabu, 25 Januari 2023.
Menurut Pudin, bulan lalu harga tomat masih berkisar Rp 4.000 per kilogram. Namun saat ini harganya anjlok di kisaran Rp 600 hingga Rp 800 per kilogram.
Turunnya harga tomat lantaran petani sedang mengalami masa panen. Ia menuturkan dalam sekali panen petani bisa menghasilkan 400 hingga 500 kotak tergantung luas lahan tanam.
Gunung Semeru terpantau mengalami erupsi pada Rabu (25/1/2023). PVMBG Pos Pengamatan Gunungapi Semeru mencatat erupsi pertama kali terjadi pada pukul 04:50 WIB, dengan tinggi kolom abu mencapai 500 meter dari puncak Semeru.
Gunung Semeru pagi ini, hari Rabu, 25/01/2023, terjadi dua kali erupsi. Kedua letusan dengan interval kurang lebih satu jam, yaitu pukul 04.50 WIB dan 05.40 WIB.
Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi (PVMBG) Badan Geologi Kementerian Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral (ESDM) melaporkan, bahwa tinggi kolom letusan pertama 500 meter dan 600 meter di atas puncak.
“Terjadi erupsi Gunung Semeru pada hari Rabu, 25 Januari 2023, pukul 05:40 WIB. Tinggi kolom letusan teramati ± 600 meter di atas puncak (± 4.276 meter di atas permukaan laut),” ungkap Petugas Pos Pengamatan Gunung Semeru, Mukdas Sofian lewat laman resmi PVMBG, pada Rabu, 25/01/2023.
Mukdas Sofian menyampaikan kolom abu teramati berwarna putih hingga kelabu dengan intensitas tebal ke arah utara. “Erupsi terekam di seismograf dengan amplitudo maksimum 20 mm dan durasi 110 detik,” katanya.
Sementara itu, saat ini masyarakat diimbau tidak melakukan aktivitas apapun di sektor tenggara di sepanjang Besuk Kobokan, sejauh 13 km dari puncak (pusat erupsi).
“Di luar jarak tersebut, masyarakat tidak melakukan aktivitas pada jarak 500 meter dari tepi sungai (sempadan sungai) di sepanjang Besuk Kobokan karena berpotensi terlanda perluasan awan panas dan aliran lahar hingga jarak 17 km dari puncak,” kata Mukdas Sofian.
Selain itu, Mukdas mengatakan masyarakat juga diminta tidak beraktivitas dalam radius 5 kilometer dari kawah atau puncak Gunung Api Semeru karena rawan terhadap bahaya lontaran batu (pijar).
“Mewaspadai potensi awan panas guguran (APG), guguran lava, dan lahar di sepanjang aliran sungai atau lembah yang berhulu di puncak Gunung Api Semeru, terutama sepanjang Besuk Kobokan, Besuk Bang, Besuk Kembar, dan Besuk Sat serta potensi lahar pada sungai-sungai kecil yang merupakan anak sungai dari Besuk Kobokan,” imbaunya.
The Justice Department and the attorney-generals of eight US states filed a joint lawsuit against Google, determining to end its 15 years of monopoly of the internet through alleged abuses of the digital advertising space.
"For 15 years, Google has pursued a course of anticompetitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival technologies, manipulate auction mechanics, to insulate itself from competition, and force advertisers and publishers to use its tools," US Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference on Tuesday.
Joined by the attorney-generals of Virginia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the Justice Department alleged in the lawsuit that Google has “corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers, advertisers, and brokers, to facilitate digital advertising.”
Having inserted itself into all aspects of the digital advertising marketplace, the internet giant has also used “anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," the 155-page lawsuit contended.
Citing examples, the Justice Department said Google designed a system to force two million online advertisers, including US government agencies such as the military, to pay higher advertising rates.
Federal agencies and departments have purchased more than $100 million in web advertising since 2019, and had to pay "supra-competitive fees" and "manipulated advertising prices," the lawsuit added.
In remedy, the prosecutors asked that a federal judge force Google to break up its advertising segment from the rest of the company - not unlike the decision against Microsoft two decades ago that preceded the eventual loss of dominance of that tech giant founded by Bill Gates, before its replacement by Google.
Google, in response to the lawsuit, said the advertising sector has "plenty of competition" and that the case against it will only make buying of advertisements more expensive for online consumers.
"Today's lawsuit from the DOJ attempts to pick winners and losers in the highly competitive advertising technology sector," the Internet giant said in a statement, referring to the Department of Justice. "DOJ is doubling down on a flawed argument that would slow innovation, raise advertising fees, and make it harder for thousands of small businesses and publishers to grow."
This is not the first time Google is facing a joint lawsuit from the Justice Department and multiple US attorney-generals at once. In 2020, a similar action was brought against the company by a coalition of prosecutors with a narrower focus on Google's advertising business. A federal judge in September allowed the case to move forward, while narrowing the scope of the allegations.
