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Justice Department officials are considering a bid to break up Alphabet, the parent company of Google, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. This comes a week after a landmark ruling from a federal judge that Google holds an illegal monopoly over the search engine business, due to distribution contracts with device manufacturers that make it the “default” search option on many devices. This has a far-reaching impact, as advertisers depend on Google for traffic and tweaks to its algorithm can make or break websites and shape their content. Want more breaking political news? Click for t…

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