was there ever a period where you could trust what a company said, and if not, why do we keep letting them exist again

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was there ever a period where you could trust what a company said, and if not, why do we keep letting them exist again
I've always thought of Google as an exercise in whether you could make a large company a moral good, and it was an abject failure. Tragic in its own way
honestly Google is still one of the more trustworthy companies somehow, relatively speaking