The report analyzes newly unsealed documents from the social media addictions that implicate YouTube senior executives and engineers and shows that the Big Tech giant suppressed internal warnings, manipulated third- party advocacy organizations, killed safety features on ROI grounds, and auto-deleted internal communications to minimize its discoverable footprint. The report includes relevant screenshots, docket numbers, and analysis that point out the rank hypocrisy of YouTube and its parent company, Google.


For reference: auto-deletion of internal e-mails (after 2 years) has been standard practice at most big companies I have had anything to do with for many years now.
Yep, that’s pretty normal now.
Partially to avoid a lawsuits, partially to force you to write proper documentation, partially to save costs.