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Google accused of allowing advertisers to search for ‘white supremacist’ keywords on YouTube – including ‘All lives matter’

An investigation by the Markup found that advertisers could find relevant videos for their ads by using terms like “white…

3 years ago

US Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in largest-ever programming copyright case

The $8 billion copyright case against Google landed heavily in the tech giant’s favor on Monday, with six judges finding…

3 years ago

Google once again takes an axe to humor on April Fool’s Day, in its ongoing bid to Make Intelligence Artificial Again

Last year, Google nixed April Fool’s Day, citing the Covid-19 pandemic and reassuring customers there would be as few as…

3 years ago

Google Podcasts is like Parler and you can find ALEX JONES there, says NYT in latest pro-censorship story

Google Podcasts is a service that helps search for, subscribe to and playback podcasts, a self-publishing media that became so…

3 years ago

President Richard Grenell? Google accidentally lists former Trump administration figure as POTUS in fake news blunder

Multiple results listed Grenell as the US president on Saturday, claiming he had taken over the position from President Joe…

3 years ago

Google promises to stop spying on users, saying 3rd-party for-profit tracking model to be phased out

Google is serious about moving away from privacy-invading micro-targeted ads, Director of Product Management David Temkin insisted in a Wednesday…

3 years ago

Europe must hurry up with Covid-19 health certificates or Apple & Google could get there first, EU Commission president warns

European leaders got together for a large two-day video conference on Thursday, discussing the outstanding issues the bloc faces. The…

3 years ago

Google fires ANOTHER AI ethics researcher amid row over ‘censorship & racism,’ as team member accuses company of ‘smear campaign’

Margaret Mitchell, who led Google’s Ethical AI unit, announced her termination in a brief tweet on Friday, saying only “I’m…

3 years ago

Google & Facebook ‘very close’ to striking deals with news orgs, Aussie treasurer says as media reform bill moves on

Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code, which first emerged in 2019, became the focus of a rather loud public feud between…

3 years ago

India’s space agency to build homegrown alternative to Google Maps, after country introduces ‘own’ Twitter & WhatsApp

The new project was announced by the Indian Space Research Organisation and MapmyIndia late on Friday. The two have not…

3 years ago