{"id":879577,"date":"2024-11-22T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=879577"},"modified":"2024-11-22T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:19:05","slug":"off-the-record-chats-messages-copied-to-lawyer-how-google-guided-employees-to-dodge-antitrust-suits-for-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/22\/off-the-record-chats-messages-copied-to-lawyer-how-google-guided-employees-to-dodge-antitrust-suits-for-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Off the record\u2019 chats, messages copied to lawyer: How Google guided employees to dodge antitrust suits for 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s battle against anti-trust suits: In 2008, Google faced increasing antitrust scrutiny over an advertising deal with its rival Yahoo, alongside lawsuits involving patent, trademark, and copyright issues. <\/p>\n<p>In response, tech giant Google issued a confidential memo to its employees, setting the tone for a long-term shift in its internal communication strategy. The memo\u2019s advice was clear: \u201cThink twice before writing about hot topics\u201d, reports New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s battle against anti-trust suits: In 2008, Google faced increasing antitrust scrutiny over an advertising deal with its rival Yahoo, alongside lawsuits involving patent, trademark, and copyright issues. In response, tech giant Google issued a confidential memo to its employees, setting the tone for a long-term shift in its internal communication strategy. The memo\u2019s advice was clear: \u201cThink twice before writing about hot topics\u201d, reports New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}