Google is named in 43 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1998 to 2026.
Google on the timeline
43 events · 1998–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | NV Energy Declines to Extend Lake Tahoe Wholesale Power Supply, Citing Data-Center Demand; ~49,000 Liberty Utilities Customers Need Replacement Supply by Mid-2027
4 src NV Energy · Liberty Utilities · California Public Utilities Commission · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Confirms Working to Replace Anthropic's Claude — OpenAI Already Deployed, Google Gemini Next in Line
3 src Cameron Stanley · Emil Michael · OpenAI · Google | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor"
3 src TechNet · Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project
3 src Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-10-20 | Trump Hosts $250 Million White House Ballroom Fundraiser with Defense and Tech Executives
2 src Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom
2 src Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump's $200M White House Ballroom Funded by Government Contractors Seeking Access
2 src Donald Trump · Lockheed Martin · Google · Palantir · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business
3 src Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | How the Trumps Turned Social Media Platform Litigation into a Profitable Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Alphabet Inc. · Google · YouTube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision
3 src Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-02 | YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections
4 src YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup
4 src Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-06 | Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-20 | DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts
4 src Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-15 | YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification
4 src YouTube · Google · QAnon movement · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens
4 src OECD · Google · Alphabet · Tax Justice Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-12 | France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M
4 src Google · French tax authority · French government · Bruno Le Maire (Finance Minister) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-17 | YouTube Pedophile Ring Enabled by Recommendation Algorithm Exposed by Matt Watson
4 src YouTube · Google · Matt Watson (investigative YouTuber) · Pedophile networks · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling
4 src Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-10 | Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism
3 src Zeynep Tufekci · Guillaume Chaslot · YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-01 | Research Shows YouTube Recommends Conspiracy Theories 80% More Than Factual Content
4 src YouTube · Google · University of California Berkeley researchers · Harvard researchers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-31 | Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year
4 src Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-27 | EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping
4 src Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-20 | YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott
4 src YouTube · Google · Times of London · Major advertisers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange
4 src Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism
4 src YouTube · Google · Guillaume Chaslot · Zeynep Tufekci (researcher) | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash
3 src Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations
4 src Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court
4 src Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-06 | Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
4 src Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers
4 src Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-08-13 | Oracle Sues Google for Copyright Infringement Over Java APIs in Android
3 src Oracle · Google · Larry Ellison · Sun Microsystems | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
4 src Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth
3 src Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Eric Schmidt | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure
4 src Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Irish government · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-28 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512: Safe Harbor Provisions Create Dual System of Corporate Protection and Individual Vulnerability
4 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Copyright Office · Google · YouTube · +1 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Microsoft
10× shared
YouTube
10× shared
Sundar Pichai
8× shared
Apple
6× shared
Department of Justice
6× shared
Meta
6× shared
Amazon
5× shared
Donald Trump
5× shared
Facebook
5× shared
Lockheed Martin
3× shared
National Security Agency
3× shared
OpenAI
3× shared
Oracle
3× shared
Palantir
3× shared
8 state Attorneys General
2× shared
Advertisers
2× shared
Alphabet
2× shared
Amazon Web Services
2× shared
Central Intelligence Agency
2× shared
Coinbase
2× shared
Disney
2× shared
Eric Schmidt
2× shared
European Commission
2× shared
Federal Trade Commission
2× shared
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