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Google violates people’s rights billions of times a day

20 May 2022

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) claims that Google grants access to 4,698 businesses, at least 294 billion times a day in the United States and 197 billion times a day in Europe, to the data it mines about sites visited and the locations of Internet surfers.
This represents the (…)

Google, Facebook and Twitter black out information on Carvativir

28 January 2021

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that researchers have elaborated a drug capable of treating Covid-19 with no side-effects, called Carvativir. He also announced that it would be manufacured in large quantities and be made available to the member (…)

Consensus: London allies with Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube, Reuters

27 November 2020

A British association called Full Fact, has created a coalition between, on the one hand, all the relevant ministries of the United Kingdom and Canada and, on the other, information giants Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Reuters, in order to fight against disinformation on the internet in (…)

YouTube censures Syrian government channels

10 September 2018

On 8 September 2018, the company YouTube (owned by the Internet giant Google) shut down the channels of the Syrian government including the channel of the Syrian President, the Syrian Minister of Defence as well as Sana, the Syrian government press agency.
YouTube has not given the reasons for (…)

Censorship of the Internet: After Alex Jones, TeleSur

17 August 2018

Facebook has announced that it has withdrawn the English accounts from TeleSur, a pan-American television channel.
On August 7, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s director, personally coordinated with Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube (but not Twitter) the deletion of Alex Jones and InfoWars (…)

The Great Purge on the Internet has begun

8 August 2018

In less than 12 hours, Internet giants have closed down all internet accounts belonging to the Group Infowars and the US journalist Alex Jones (see photo), both pro-Trump.
This purge follows a US House of Representatives Hearing of the Justice Committee on Censorship of the Internet and was (…)

Google is Directing the French Election Campaign

4 March 2017

Since February 28, 2017, Google News Lab and the European Journalism Center (EJC) have coordinated French and foreign companies for the duration of the French presidential election campaign.
Both organizations rely on the experience of ProPublica, which directed the media against Donald Trump (…)

Google and Al-Jazeera’s failed propaganda operation

28 March 2016

In August 2012, Google created an application for counting desertions from the Syrian Arab Army, as attested by an email from Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, to State Secretary Hillary Clinton and her advisors William Burns, Jacob Sullivan and Alec Ross [4].
Later on, Google (…)

Google Attacks China as Washington-Beijing Hostility Deepens

by Webster G. Tarpley

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 21 January 2010

In the current showdown between Google and the Chinese Government, the media is portraying Google as the champion of Internet freedom upholding the human rights of the Chinese people. This is sheer hypocrisy considering that Google is part of a cartel of Internet companies colluding with the US (…)