It’s not clear, however, from the exhibit shared with the court, that the topic of the conversation would have had bearing on Epic’s antitrust case against the tech giant. In one particularly notable instance, Google CEO Sundar Pichai asked for the chat history to be turned off and then tried to unsuccessfully delete the preceding message. That makes the new discovery of communications where Google employees often instructed others to turn off chat all the more interesting. Department of Justice in its own antitrust investigation, where it alleged Google had for years “routinely destroyed” an entire category of communication.
The issue with Google’s deletion of chat history was also recently cited by the U.S. Epic believes this behavior is meant to destroy sensitive communications related to its lawsuit, but it’s not the only one making this claim. In a new filing in Epic Games’ antitrust case against Google, lawyers for the plaintiffs have submitted a number of exhibits that attempt to demonstrate Google employees’ tendency to switch off chat history on internal discussions.
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