Facebook operational director Sheryl Sandberg speaks on stage during the Cannes Lions 2019 Facebook session: the third day, on June 19, 2019, in Cannes, France.
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Google and Facebook have pledged to help each other if they have ever faced an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
The story is based on an unwritten version of a lawsuit filed by 10 US states against Google last week, which was seen by Jurnal.
Google and Facebook reportedly entered into an agreement in September 2018 in which Facebook agreed not to compete with Google’s online advertising tools. Instead, the social media giant received “special treatment” when he used them alone, according to the Journal.
The lawsuit alleges that Google and Facebook knew their business could lead to antitrust investigations.
A Google spokesman told CNBC that the allegations in the lawsuit were inaccurate. “The idea that this was a secret agreement is just wrong. We have been public about this partnership for years,” they said.
Facebook did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Read the full story of the Journal here.