Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Google

February 19, 2021

Google crisis continues as employee calls new executive appointment ‘betrayal’

“It’s incredibly hurtful to see her legitimising what Jeff Dean and his subordinates have done to me and my team.”

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February 15, 2021

Google fined $1.3m for wrong classification of French hotels

French authorities said Google misinformed tourists and harmed the interests of hotel owners.

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February 9, 2021

Google introduces online safety programme for Nigeria, other African countries

“Twenty six social impact organisations across nine African countries have been selected to receive grants of up to 100,000 dollars each.”

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February 4, 2021

Google engineers resign over dismissal of ethics researcher

Reuters reported in December that Google had told some staff not to cast its technology in a negative light.

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January 22, 2021

Google threatens to pull out from Australia

The company wants to pay publishers through its Google News Showcase programme rather than for links.

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January 14, 2021

Trump social media ban divisive, dangerous: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Mr. Dorsey reflects on widespread criticism about the power now being wielded by Internet giants over freedom of speech and association online.

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey
January 12, 2021

Trump Ban: U.S. Internet company blocks Facebook, Twitter over censorship

“We have made this decision to block these two websites (Facebook and Twitter) from being accessed from our network,” it added.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey
January 9, 2021

Censorship: Google removes Parler app used by Trump supporters

Some argue that these companies were wielding too much power that could be used to target causes unjustly.

December 24, 2020

Journalist Obi-Young sues Ainehi Edoro, Brittle Paper over unpaid salaries, copyright infringement

Otosirieze Obi-Young left Brittle Paper in April after publishing a story about how Bashir El-Rufai threatened to organise a gang-rape of a Twitter user’s mother.

Otosirieze Obi-Young and Ainehi Edoro
December 14, 2020

Panic as Google suffers global outage

Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other crucial services from Google have all been down in the rare outage.

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