According to this article, it is treated as a request and often denied by the company. The target of the warrant did go to court to quash it, but that was already after Google declined to share the information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/hom...

edit: it appears that either 1. the Washington Post is printing misinformation, or 2. I have made a grave misinterpretation.

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cpncrunch 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think that is a different case though.

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lotsofpulp 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Washington Post can be relied on to publish disinformation, not just misinformation:

https://bsky.app/profile/cingraham.bsky.social/post/3mecltnb...

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skybrian an hour ago | parent [-]

Washington Post editorials have gotten pretty conservative, but that's different from articles in the news section.

(It seems similar to the difference between the Wall Street Journal's reporting and editorials.)

	▲	lotsofpulp 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If their editorial content is for sale, is it not reasonable to assume the rest is for sale also? The above example isn’t a “conservative” editorial, it is a partisan editorial. A legitimate organization would never publish such inconsistent writing.

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bobmcnamara 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, it is BezPost.