The Polish foreign ministry has revealed that Google has rejected complaints over a series of YouTube videos in Polish published by the Israeli embassy that Poland says are spreading “disinformation” about the situation in Gaza by casting doubt on reports of starvation there.

In late July and early August, the embassy posted six videos claiming that Israel is providing large amounts of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, that stories about starvation are Hamas propaganda uncritically shared by international media, and that it is the UN which is blocking aid trucks from entering.

“Google responded that the promoted materials were consistent with its policies and values”,

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[–] 94 points 1 year ago (12 children)

So genocide is a Google's value. Noted.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Israel payed a lot of money for google to push that propaganda

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    $42 million dollars. Basically nothing in terms of Google's bottom line.

    They're doing this because they WANT to.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think they just added a period.

    Don't. Be evil.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Acktually

    They removed that motto when they rebranded as Alphabet

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And they had to chose the most evil sounding name possible. The only name sounding sounding more evil, i can think of is something like global tetrahedron llc

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago*

    Good for Poland. Fuck YT.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    We live in fucking upside down world where bloodthirsty genociders are covered for, and despicable right wing grifters that preached hate and violence are lionized.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What are some steps we can take to divest from google? It seems very hard

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  • Google "degoogling".
    Actually don't.
    Search it on DuckDuckGo.
    
    Access YouTube through Invidious.
    Install GrapheneOS on Google Pixel phones, and /e/OS on other bootloader-unlockable Android phones.
    Or go for a real Linux phone.
    Swap Chrome for Librewolf or Firefox.
    If you use GMail, move to a different provider.
    Use Openstreetmap.
    Replace clouds such as Google Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Photos with alternatives.
    
    P.S. codeblock is so that markdown doesn't fuck up the line breaks
    
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Not to excuse this, but isn't all of YTs report handling done automatically by some shitty algorithm?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)