Can we change the setting of this group to history off please?
Sundar Pichai — CEO, Alphabet and Google, US v. Google Antitrust Trial Sworn Testimony
“Google fosters an open culture of discussion. We take document retention and legal compliance seriously across all executive communications.”
Sundar Pichai to Google Leadership — executive communications, Internal email entered into DOJ trial evidence
“Also can we change the setting of this group to history off please.”
The Split:While Google proclaimed compliance and transparency in antitrust proceedings, CEO Sundar Pichai explicitly instructed colleagues in writing to toggle their executive group chat to history off to prevent creating discoverable records.
When an executive abruptly interrupts a substantive business thread to request history off or take it to Signal, the preference falsification is operating in real time.