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Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court

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Sean Hollister
Did Google delete damning evidence? Epic wants the jury to think so.

Judge Donato allowed Epic to proactively tell the jury that Google may have something to hide — since Google employees all the way up to CEO Sundar Pichai set some of their chats to auto-delete to avoid them falling into lawyers’ hands.

“All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed,” Epic attorney Gary Bornstein told the jury.

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