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The term “agreement among competitors” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that quotation. Is there any evidence that this boycott was coordinated? AFAIK so far every advertiser who pulled out has a solid reason for doing so.

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I don't know, but the Congressional report claims "a GARM member documented discussions about the boycott, noting that the company had pulled advertisements from Twitter based on GARM's recommendations."

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/how-worlds-...

What are the cohorts of competitors vs simply a bunch of companies? If a couple of alcoholic beverage companies or airlines were part of the group as well as unrelated companies, it could be said that competitors were agreeing. But that's super weak.

I think the why must matter though right? Unrelated to I viewpoint could you just sue a group because they all agree advertising on your platform is useless?

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