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• @ousfourita Wafa Ben-Hassine on x

  This is MASSIVE. Texas AG: “Shortly after FB acquired WhatsApp, in 2015, FB signed an exclusive agreement with Google, *granting Google access to millions of Americans' end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messages, photos, videos, and audio files.*” @erbrod @eileenguo @nxthompson

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  Facebook has a featured role in this Google antitrust lawsuit. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  OK, whew. I've now read all 130 pages of state AGs suit v Google. In three words, Google is royally screwed. Expect... Press headlines: Facebook and Google colluded! Deeper dives: Google turned open web into a walled garden of tying, exclusionary tactics, and privacy fixing.

• @daiwaka Daisuke Wakabayashi on x

  One of the most interesting parts of this Texas complaint is an allegation that Google diffused a threat from Facebook by agreeing to give it special advantages in ad auctions. If true, an obvious anticompetitive move by both parties

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  “As internal Google documents reveal, Google sought to kill competition and has done so through an array of exclusionary tactics, including an unlawful agreement with Facebook, its largest potential competitive threat, to manipulate advertising auctions.” https://www.courtlistene…

• @petersterne @petersterne on x

  @alexstamos @ceciliakang If the GDrive backup was unencrypted content (ie Google could mine it), and Google and FB didn't make that clear, then that seems like a problem.

• @tayhatmaker Taylor Hatmaker on x

  if that's the case and the rest of the Texas filing is this messy, i'd understand why 30+ AGs decided to sue Google separately https://www.reuters.com/...

• @jowens510 Jeremy C. Owens on x

  Let's see here. 12 states signed on to federal suit, after California joined late. 10 states total listed in the Texas suit. If we get to 30+ in this suit, some states have to be doubling up ... https://twitter.com/...

• @kylenabecker Kyle Becker on x

  BIG TECH.🖥️ “Texas plans to hire Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the investigation that led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment, to represent the state in an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGLE”... https://www.newsmax.com/...