I wonder what the corruption and coverups look like now. Everyone understands how revealing the paper trail can be and I bet retention policies and data govern

I wonder what the corruption and coverups look like now. Everyone understands how revealing the paper trail can be and I bet retention policies and data governance are used to make the evidence disappear. Should companies like Microsoft get scrutinized for building the tech that makes it easier to hide these types of things? Maybe some of the large pharmaceutical, pesticide, mining, and / or every company over a certain size should be legally obligated to have a lifelong retention policy for their communications.