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Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News By Dave Michaels Feb. 23, 2023 5:48 pm ET print Listen to article (2 minutes) WASHINGTON--The Justice Department said Google destroyed written records needed for an antitrust lawsuit that focuses on how the company preserved its dominance in internet search. The government asked a federal judge Thursday to sanction Google for its past practice of setting employee chats to auto-delete, despite the company having told the court it would preserve records required for litigation. Google employees routinely discussed "substantive and sensitive business" using an instant-messaging product that was set to delete chats after 24 hours, the Justice Department said. 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