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 probably the world s big
removed some content and you haven t and you get an enormous fine for it, 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 no coffee please no 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
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 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 fo
fauci? why isn t he speaking out about prominent physicians having their voices suppressed? i think a lot of the leadership of silicon valley, a lot of the people who give advice to silicon valley about these content moderation policies they have gone way too far. it s one thing to suppress violent threats against people. absolutely appropriate but then to turn around and decide they are going to suppress discussions about basic scientific policy, i wasn t saying anything that was threatening people other than maybe tony fauci, not physically, just his ideas. we needed to have a discussion, an open scientific discussion about the right policies for covid. imagine how different all the small businesses who stayed open, all the people that wouldn t have missed their cancer screenings, all the kids that wouldn t be depressed and suicidal, all the learning loss that could have been avoided if
pause before we get into that, and say that we don t even know what islamic is claiming here, is actually true. here s what we know so far. apple has rules, they require apps like twitter to have content moderation policies, police harmful content on their platforms. twitter has fired and laid off, a large portion of the employee base responsible for policing harmful content. and, researchers have found that the platform is letting a lot of harmful content slides through the cracks right now. so it s not impossible to imagine a scenario, or apple perhaps sent twitter a kind of boiler plate letter, like it does to many apps that violated rules and say, hey, if you don t clean up your path, you might be could put it off. that s different than what enormous insinuating here, which is a politically motivated attack from apple. because they disagree with him about free speech. well, let s just stay on clean up one s act, no telling