If a news site, any news site, makes a claim but doesn't provide a direct link to the source you should treat it as rumor at best, propaganda at worst.
In this case only a link to the gov website or the Google site for a response would do but Bloomberg offered neither. They shouldn't officially have known about the case yet.
Here is a link to the plaintif presentation filed Sept 8th, 2022 by the DOJ against Google, on the official gov website - https:/
/www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1536456/download
Here is a link to the gov logs about the status of the case, the complaint was received Oct 20th, 2020. [
justice.gov...]
It's normal for a case to progress past the complaint stage before being made public. Even then much is kept redacted. This one is real however - The case name is - "United States, State of Arkansas, State of Florida, State of Georgia, State of Indiana, Commonwealth of Kentucky, State of Louisiana, State of Mississippi, State of Missouri, State of Montana, State of South Carolina and State of Texas v. Google LLC"
edit: the Sept 8th filing goes into lengthy detail about search and Google history, it's worth reading for informational reasons. It took almost 2 years just to prepare the suit for filing...
Also, in the status report just before the plaintif presentation is evidence the DOJ and Google are trying to resolve the issues outside of court, if possible.
The parties have narrowed the areas of dispute, but are continuing to meet and confer in
good faith to reach a mutually agreeable resolution. Accordingly, the Parties propose that they
file a proposal or competing proposals regarding an exchange of the identities of witnesses and
entities that may be called at trial by tomorrow, February 17, 2022.
Maybe they should ask Bloomberg for identities? lol. The most trustworthy information rarely comes from news organizations these days but the juicy stuff sure does.
