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Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, exits federal court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg)
The Department of Justice kicked off its antitrust trial against Google this week by presenting evidence that Google allegedly hid monopolistic behaviors not just by auto-deleting four years of chats, but also by training employees to avoid using certain words in office communications.
DOJ attorney Kenneth Dintzer argued that Google executives knew the company would be scrutinized as a monopoly and since at least 2003 have circulated "unambiguous instructions on phrases" employees should "avoid" to ensure that the company doesn't "come across like monopolists," Bloomberg reported.
“We should be careful about what we say in both public and private,” Google's chief economist, Hal Varian, wrote in a July 2003 memo.
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