Google’s week of combative antitrust pushback got here to a becoming conclusion on Friday with the corporate submitting a motion to dismiss massive components of an antitrust case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a coalition of different states. Among different issues, the brand new complaint filed final week accused Google of colluding with Facebook (now Meta) to present it an unfair leg up in Google’s programmatic advert auctions as a part of a mission oddly known as “Jedi Blue.” Facebook, as a part of the alleged quid professional quo, would conform to again down from its personal advert plans. The grievance goes so far as to say Google’s Sundar Pichai—and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg—all signed off on the settlement.

That’s clearly not the way in which Google sees it. In the movement, Google claimed the states had did not show it had engaged in any anti-competitive conduct. Instead, the corporate described the examples lodged within the grievance as nothing greater than a “collection of grievances.” Rather, if the states had their method, Google alleges, then the search large can be compelled to, “share with its competitors the fruits of its investments and innovation.” Google went on to argue a few of the alleged conduct cited by states ended years in the past, making the claims irrelevant.

“State Plaintiffs’ complaint—cheered on by a handful of Google’s rivals who have failed to invest properly, compete successfully, or innovate consistently—might serve the narrow interests of those rivals,” Google wrote within the movement. “But it also threatens to stifle the dynamism that drives Google and other firms to deliver the products on which businesses and consumers depend every day.”

Adam Cohen, Google’s Director of Economic Policy, launched an accompanying weblog post offering extra particulars on the corporate’s choice to file the movement. In it, Cohen accused Paxton specifically of creating “inaccurate and inflammatory allegations,” that misrepresent Google’s enterprise, merchandise, and motives. Cohen refuted a handful of the claims made in Paxton’s grievance, notably together with these surrounding alleged collusion with Facebook.

Google says it publicly announced Facebook Audience Network’s (FAN) participation in its Open Bidding program, (alongside at the very least 25 different companions) again in 2018. Rather than being anti-competitive, Google argued Facebook’s participation in these auctions was really useful to each advertisers and publishers.

“In fact,” Cohen wrote, “If FAN weren’t a part of Open Bidding, AG Paxton may have claimed we were preventing a rival from accessing our products and depriving publishers of additional revenue.”

Finally, Cohen reiterated Google’s view that it didn’t present Facebook with a bonus over different bidding opponents, “FAN [Facebook] competes in the auction just like other bidders.”

As hinted at above, Google’s movement comes throughout per week of vigorous lobbying in opposition to different legislative antitrust efforts trudging their method by means of Congress. Google took specific challenge with the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which if handed would make it unlawful for tech’s largest web corporations to unfairly favor their very own services on their platforms. In some circumstances, Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly personally contacted a number of lawmakers urging them to oppose the laws. In the top, these efforts fell brief. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly (16-6) in favor of advancing the laws.