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Microsoft calls out Google for running ‘shadow campaigns’ in Europe to influence regulators
Microsoft suggested Google has a pattern of funding organizations with the mission of discrediting the software company with regulators.
Microsoft took the unusual step Monday of publicly accusing longtime rival Google of running "shadow campaigns" in Europe designed to discredit the software giant with regulators. Google has gone through great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding, and control, most notably by recruiting a handful of European cloud providers, to serve as the public face of the new organization." And she said Google reportedly offered around $500 million to members of another group, Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, if they would reject a proposed antitrust settlement regarding Microsoft.
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