Thursday, 11. August 2016
Topic: GOOGLE - on August 11, 2016 at 3:44:00 PM CEST
Google Maps did not ‘delete’ Palestine — but it does impact how you see it
Dear @googlemaps, Palestine exists! #FreePalestine #PalestineIsHere #BoycottGoogle pic.twitter.com/9cWqziofId — Ainara (@afraileromero) August 8, 2016
Users view Google Maps more than a billion times each week: It’s one of the world’s largest sources of geographic data and the first place many of us turn when we need to locate something. So it makes sense that, when a Gaza City-based journalism group claimed that the nation of Palestine had literally been wiped from Google’s maps, readers were, well — indignant. Dozens of Middle-Eastern news outlets have covered the “backlash,” and tens of thousands have Facebook-shared and tweeted it.
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