Google foresaw possibility of probe of Jedi Blue advertising deal with Facebook

> Google has acknowledged that its previously secret 2018 advertising agreement with Facebook, code-named “Jedi Blue,” allowed the companies to terminate the deal “in the event of certain government investigations of the agreement” — behavior that state attorneys general have cited as evidence the companies knew they were violating antitrust laws.

> In a federal court document whose improperly redacted portions have been seen by MLex, Google also confirmed that the “network bidding agreement” was signed by senior Google and Facebook executives, including Google Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The redacted document, filed overnight in a federal court in Plano, Texas, failed to effectively mask the redacted portions, but has since been refiled with the redacted parts hidden.