Google rejects Poland's complaints over Israeli “disinformation” videos about Gaza (notesfrompoland.com)
from solo@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 10:06
https://piefed.social/post/1264680

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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unconsequential@slrpnk.net on 15 Sep 10:09 next collapse

Good for Poland. Fuck YT.

kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Sep 10:16 next collapse

So genocide is a Google’s value. Noted.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 15 Sep 10:42 next collapse

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

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 15 Sep 10:43 next collapse

also google maps and waze have tons of israeli input

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 11:06 next collapse

A rope or chain is payed out, a service provider is paid.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:08 collapse

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

They’re doing this because they WANT to.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 15 Sep 13:21 next collapse

hence my other two comments. this goes deeper than that payment. google is deeply invested in the global mass killing machine

mrdown@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 14:22 next collapse

Capitalism encourage infinite growth so google like even 1 dollars more

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 20:25 collapse

Where does this figure come from? Google got a sweet deal on a ton of office space in Israel worth more than that, for example.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 11:13 collapse

Don’t be evil

Strobelt@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 12:30 collapse

I think they just added a period.

Don’t. Be evil.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 12:33 collapse
Acktually

They removed that motto when they rebranded as Alphabet

comalnik@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:01 collapse

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

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:43 collapse

they were a corporation since day 1.

being evil is unavoidable.

Twats talk about AI alignment, while ignoring that corporations are intrinsically aligned with evil.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 11:05 next collapse

Broken link

solo@piefed.social on 15 Sep 12:19 next collapse

I don't know what to say, for me it works.

doctortofu@piefed.social on 15 Sep 13:08 collapse
intentionallyBlue@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 12:06 next collapse

The link is dead

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Sep 12:39 next collapse

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.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:00 next collapse

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

thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Sep 14:21 collapse 
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
workerONE@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:23 collapse

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