Who do they serve?

Report: WhatsApp Child Porn Groups Made Money Through Google, Facebook Ads.

TechCrunch discovered apps available on Google Play which led to child porn groups on the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, all of which reportedly made money through Google and Facebook’s advertising networks.

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Google Erases Map of Kurdistan After Turkey Complains of ‘Terrorist Propaganda’.

Kurdish news agencies report on Friday that a map of greater Kurdistan – featuring territory belonging to Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria – no longer appears on Google Earth, replaced by a message stating that the map violated “our Terms of Service and/or policies.”

The map, which appeared to be user-generated and not a recognition of a sovereign state of “Kurdistan,” became the focal point of controversy this week after several Turkish lawmakers complained that the map was “at the service of terrorist organizations” by recognizing the existence of a territory where ethnic Kurds are the majority.

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Peter Schweizer on 2018: ‘Watershed Year’ Exposing Big Data’s ‘Censorship,’ ‘Control,’ ‘Manipulation’.

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, said on Friday 2018 was a “watershed year” for revealing technology companies’ use of political censorship towards advancing left-wing politics.

Schweizer highlighted 2018’s leaks from companies such as Google — including Google leadership’s description of the company as “The Good Censor” and coordination with China’s government to develop a search engine — in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Schweizer said, “Breitbart reporters have done amazing work with these leaks that have come out, which really, I think are indisputable; the fact that companies like Google have a political agenda, and I think this is a really important pivot point — what happened this year — because essentially what you had was, in Washington, people on the political left defending Google and basically saying, ‘Oh, they have a right to it. They have a right to their own political point of view, and we have no problem with their political point of view because we happen to share it.’