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- Google is facing sanctions for deleting evidence in an antitrust lawsuit.
- Google was asked in 2019 to suspend its policy of auto-deleting company chats.
- Google continued to delete "off the record" chats every 24 hours until this February, the Justice Department said.
The US Department of Justice accused Google on Thursday of deleting evidence that would be used in the government's antitrust lawsuit against the company's search business.