Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a broad antitrust investigation into Google.
"We have been working constructively with the Texas attorney general and have produced a substantial volume of information in response to his inquiry even as we seek assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants," a Google spokesperson said.in September of last year on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, backed by 49 attorneys general from nearly every state and territory in the country.
On Tuesday, Paxton and several other state AGs, including Doug Peterson of Nebraska and Sean Reyes of Utah, met with top officials at the Justice Department, which is also investigating Google. Part of the purpose of the meeting was to connect with the DOJ's new leadership team, Paxton said. The department's top antitrust official, Makan Delrahim,. Delrahim previously lobbied for Google during its acquisition of the advertising technology company DoubleClick, a position that has been criticized by lawmakers and activists as a conflict of interest. The DOJ said that Delrahim's decision was made out of "an abundance of caution.
"It seems like a strategy by Google: Let's just slow this down," he said. "We'll just make this drag out for years and years … We can just fund whatever it is, however long it takes."
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