• USA Today issued a clarification on May 5, 2026, following comments by CEO Michael Reed on an investor call that described amounts tied to its Google litigation as estimated damages.
• The company said it has not publicly disclosed, reported, or quantified any estimate of damages in the case.
• It reiterated its position that Google interfered with billions of dollars in revenue across billions of ad auctions, with anticipated damages described as “very substantial” even before automatic trebling under US antitrust law.

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