“Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous disinformation that puts public health and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian ad tech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people …”

How much evil does Google do? A blockbuster from @ProPublica cuts through the secrecy.

propublica.org/article/google-

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@JamesGleick @ProPublica
At least they were honest enough to drop that "no evil" thing a goodly while back. Looks like an engrossing report, thanks!

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