i wonder how far would twitter have to push the boundaries, for example allowing hate speech, for you to pull it from google s app store? well, we have very clear policies on our app store. it s like a retailer as to what we require different apps to do in order to qualify to be there. and that includes content moderation policies. so we already have policies that allow us to do that. and i don t have the policy in my head. but. but i mean, you did remove, for example, the right wing social media platform, parler from the app store. i wondered if you were actively. are you actively looking at twitter? well, actually, so parler and a couple of other apps initially didn t comply with our policies, i believe. i m not entirely certain but i believe they are now there because they have now built some content moderation policies. so we will keep those things under review. and i want to talk a bit about google s relationship with news publishers in the uk. google is the single biggest source
apps to do in order to qualify to be there. and that includes content moderation policies. so we already have policies that allow us to do that. and i don t have the policy in my head. but. but i mean, you did remove, for example, the right wing social media platform, parler from the app store. i wondered if you were actively. are you actively looking at twitter? well, actually, so parler and a couple of other apps initially didn t comply with our policies, i believe. i m not entirely certain but i believe they are now there because they have now built some content moderation policies. so we will keep those things under review. and i want to talk a bit about google s relationship with news publishers in the uk. google is the single biggest source of traffic for every major news website in this country. the research firm insider intelligence estimates you made more than £8 million in ad revenue here last year. you dominate online search advertising, as i said. it means newspapers don t
are you actively looking at twitter? well, actually, so parler and a couple of other apps initially didn t comply with our policies, i believe. i m not entirely certain but i believe they are now there because they have now built some content moderation policies. so we will keep those things under review. and i want to talk a bit about google s relationship with news publishers in the uk. google is the single biggest source of traffic for every major news website in this country. the research firm insider intelligence estimates you made more than £8 million in ad revenue here last year. you dominate online search advertising, as i said. it means newspapers don t make money from traditional ads, and it s hard to make a local newspaper, for example, profitable. do you feel bad about that? well, i don t agree with all of the things you said there. but i mean, let me first say i was a publisher. i worked for what is now reach before ijoined google 16 years ago. and we are actually probabl
for a small platform, let s say, that means you ll tend towards removing content which is marginal. and that s what the freedom of speech lobby have been arguing, that there s a real concern around having very big consequences on things which aren t very clear. there s no legal kind of definition of some of this content. that you have the other alternative, which is less access, and a non democratic country might use that in a very worrying way. i want to ask you about twitter, because elon musk has been very clear he wants to vastly expand the parameters of free speech on the platform. i wonder how far would twitter have to push the boundaries, for example allowing hate speech, for you to pull it from google s app store? well, we have very clear policies on our app store. it s like a retailer as to what we require different apps to do in order to qualify to be there. and that includes content moderation policies. so we already have policies that allow us to do that. and i don t have t
of speech lobby have been arguing, that there s a real concern around having very big consequences on things which aren t very clear. there s no legal kind of definition of some of this content. that you have the other alternative, which is less access, and a non democratic country might use that in a very worrying way. i want to ask you about twitter, because elon musk has been very clear he wants to vastly expand the parameters of free speech on the platform. i wonder how far would twitter have to push the boundaries, for example allowing hate speech, for you to pull it from google s app store? well, we have very clear policies on our app store. it s like a retailer as to what we require different apps to do in order to qualify to be there. and that includes content moderation policies. so we already have policies that allow us to do that. and i don t have the policy in my head. but. but i mean, you did remove, for example, the right wing social media platform, parler from the app st