litigation
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USA Today CEO misstates Google litigation damages; company corrects, reaffirms claim of billions in lost revenue
USA TODAY Co., Inc.
- CEO Michael Reed on May 5 investor call characterized amounts as estimated damages in Google litigation.
- Company clarifies it has not publicly quantified any damage estimate for the Google case.
- USA Today maintains Google interfered with billions of dollars in revenue over billions of ad auctions.
- Company expects very substantial damages, including automatic treble damages under antitrust law.
- Damage estimates are based on Google's own internal documents studying harm to publishers.