Google rejects Poland's complaints over Israeli “disinformation” videos about Gaza

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/15/google-rejects-polands-complaints-over-israeli-disinformation-videos-about-gaza/

The Polish foreign ministry has revealed that Google has rejected complaints over a series of YouTube videos in Polish published by the Israeli embassy that Poland says are spreading “disinformation” about the situation in Gaza by casting doubt on reports of starvation there.

In late July and early August, the embassy posted six videos claiming that Israel is providing large amounts of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, that stories about starvation are Hamas propaganda uncritically shared by international media, and that it is the UN which is blocking aid trucks from entering.

“Google responded that the promoted materials were consistent with its policies and values”,

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kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 97 pts · 341d (12 replies)

So genocide is a Google's value. Noted.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 47 pts · 341d (6 replies)

Israel payed a lot of money for google to push that propaganda

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 341d (3 replies)

$42 million dollars. Basically nothing in terms of Google's bottom line.

They're doing this because they WANT to.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 341d

hence my other two comments. this goes deeper than that payment. google is deeply invested in the global mass killing machine

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 341d

Where does this figure come from? Google got a sweet deal on a ton of office space in Israel worth more than that, for example.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d

Capitalism encourage infinite growth so google like even 1 dollars more

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 341d

also google maps and waze have tons of israeli input

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d

A rope or chain is payed out, a service provider is paid.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 341d (4 replies)

~~Don't be evil~~

Strobelt@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 341d (3 replies)

I think they just added a period.

Don't. Be evil.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d (2 replies)

::: spoiler Acktually

They removed that motto when they rebranded as Alphabet

:::

comalnik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d (1 reply)

And they had to chose the most evil sounding name possible. The only name sounding sounding more evil, i can think of is something like global tetrahedron llc

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d

they were a corporation since day 1.

being evil is unavoidable.

Twats talk about AI alignment, while ignoring that corporations are intrinsically aligned with evil.

unconsequential@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 341d

Good for Poland. Fuck YT.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 341d

We live in fucking upside down world where bloodthirsty genociders are covered for, and despicable right wing grifters that preached hate and violence are lionized.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d (1 reply)

What are some steps we can take to divest from google? It seems very hard

thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 341d

Google "degoogling".
Actually don't.
Search it on DuckDuckGo.

Access YouTube through Invidious.
Install GrapheneOS on Google Pixel phones, and /e/OS on other bootloader-unlockable Android phones.
Or go for a real Linux phone.
Swap Chrome for Librewolf or Firefox.
If you use GMail, move to a different provider.
Use Openstreetmap.
Replace clouds such as Google Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Photos with alternatives.

P.S. codeblock is so that markdown doesn't fuck up the line breaks

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d (2 replies)

Broken link

doctortofu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 341d

I think the title/URL was changed, this seems to be the updated one: https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/15/google-rejects-polands-complaints-over-israels-manipulated-youtube-videos-about-gaza/

solo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 341d

I don't know what to say, for me it works.

workerONE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d

Not to excuse this, but isn't all of YTs report handling done automatically by some shitty algorithm?

intentionallyBlue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d

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