Google and Facebook <br />Agreed to Team up , to Fight Antitrust Probes.<br />'The Wall Street Journal' reports that the <br />two tech behemoths made a deal in 2018 ... .<br />... where Facebook consented that it would <br />not attempt to compete with the online <br />advertising tools developed by Google.<br />In the event that an antitrust issue <br />arose from the deal.<br />the two companies agreed to work together <br />to face such an investigation.<br />According to the deal, <br />Facebook would also be granted "special treatment" <br />in its use of the Google advertising tools.<br />The details of the agreement were outlined in a <br />multi-state lawsuit filed against Google last week. .<br />Google representatives have referred <br />to the charges of the lawsuit as inaccurate.<br />Facebook has yet to comment on the story