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Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic…

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Google is issuing refunds for ads that ran on websites with fake traffic, people familiar with the situation said, as the web giant develops a tool to give marketers more transparency about the ads they buy through its platform. In the past few weeks, the Alphabet Inc. unit has informed hundreds of marketers and…

How Google Is Secretly Recording You And Storing Your Conversations…

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DID you know that Google has been recording you without your knowledge? The technology giant has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices that can capture intimate conversations – even when they aren’t in the room. If you own an Android phone, it’s likely that you’ve used Google’s Assistant…

On the Google Memo Flap, Every Side is Right…And…

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If I were a computer engineer struggling in Google’s male-dominated culture and woke up one morning to read a mini treatise by a male colleague that innate biological differences between the sexes—not sexism—were to blame for the company’s gender gap, I would be pretty damn pissed. But that wouldn’t mean that my colleague was wrong—nor […]

Google Censors Block Access to CounterPunch and Other Progressive Sites…

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The U.S. government, and the information technology companies which collaborate with it, is moving fully into the camp of governments which relentlessly utilize the internet to collect users online data, monitor their activities, and control what they can see and do. First, there was – and is – the NSA, National Security Agency of the […]

Google’s Chief Search Engineer Legitimizes New Censorship Algorithm…

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Between April and June, Google completed a major revision of its search engine that sharply curtails public access to Internet web sites that operate independently of the corporate and state-controlled media. Since the implementation of the changes, many left wing, anti-war and progressive web sites have experienced a sharp fall in traffic…

Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up?…

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As a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, Jonathan Taplin isn’t your typical academic. Lately, though, he’s been busy writing somber tomes about market shares, monopolies, and online platforms. His conclusion: Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google have become too big and too powerful and, if not stopped, may need to be broken up…

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