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  "claim": "Google crossed 300 million paid subscriptions across services like Google One and YouTube Premium",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Google has 300M+ paying subscribers\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Alphabet (Sundar Pichai earnings remarks)",
    "title": "Q3 2025 earnings call: CEO remarks (Oct. 2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "And we crossed 300 million paid subscriptions, led by growth in Google One and YouTube Premium.",
  "method": "Company-reported count of paid subscriptions (not unique people), Q3 2025.",
  "drift": [
    "Subscriptions, not individual subscribers; one person can hold several"
  ],
  "interest": "Company describing its own results.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Alphabet said in October 2025 that it had crossed 300 million paid subscriptions, led by Google One and YouTube Premium.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Alphabet Q3 2025 CEO remarks",
      "url": "https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q3-2025/",
      "primary": true
    }
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  "as_of": "Q3 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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