I feel like Google would have been better off if they had stayed out of the newspaper aggregation business and stuck with Search and long tail media content, GCP, GSuite and did R&D in AI (Waymo, Verily) and AR/VR. There is just too much baggage when wading into politics.

I think there are too many well connected, well funded media companies that are lobbying and retaliating behind the scenes as they see their news publishing business models get disrupted by the Google News aggregator. Couple that with politicians frustrated by the Google News opaque aggregation algorithm and that leads to anti-trust rulings.