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How Google and Facebook's trillion-dollar duopoly strangles the internet

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They are two of the most astonishing success stories in the history of capitalism.

In the space of a few years, Google and Facebook have amassed a collective market value of nearly $US1 trillion ($1.3 trillion), and created a global duopoly in digital advertising that looks unassailable.

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