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Google Inc. | |
|---|---|
 Google's 2015 logo. | |
| Industry | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Science |
| Founder | Larry Page Sergey Brin |
| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California , United States |
| Website | |
| www.google.com | |
Google Inc. is a United States-based tech company involved in state surveillance, censorship, and military contracting. It runs Google Search, the world's largest search engine. It is owned by the holding company Alphabet Inc.
Censorship
In April 2017, Google implemented changes to Google Search to make it more difficult to access so-called "fake news." The censorship decreased visits to the World Socialist Web Site from over 422,000 per month to only 120,000. Other left-wing and anti-war websites targeted include AlterNet, Consortium News, Counterpunch, Global Research, and WikiLeaks.[1]
Imperialism
Google vice president Milo Medin and former executive chairman and board member Eric Schmidt are on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Google supplied mapping technology to the U.S. military for use in their invasion of Iraq.[2]
Surveillance
In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked evidence that the NSA and FBI had direct access to the internal servers of Google, YouTube, and several other major tech companies.[2]
References
- ↑ Andre Damon, Niles Niemuth (2017-07-27). "New Google algorithm restricts access to left-wing, progressive web sites" World Socialist Web Site. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elliott Gabriel (2018-04-06). "Pentagon Capitalism and Silicon Valley: Google’s Drone War Project Shows Big Data’s Military Roots" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-07-06.