Google says it didn’t remove ‘Palestine’ from its maps

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by Sindy Cator on August 12, 2016 at 6:24 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Google Maps

Google got in trouble this week for allegedly removing the ‘Palestine’ label from the neighboring region of Israel. GIFs, hashtags, videos and petitions were circulated online in a bid to urge the company to curb its political agenda and amend its map. Up until July 25 the word Palestine was on Google's map. pic.twitter.com/I3IEkA9qGV — JewishVoiceForPeace (@jvplive) August 9, 2016 According to Google, there was nothing it could do because the label never existed in the first place. Google told The New York Times in a statement: There has never been a ‘Palestine’ label on Google Maps, however we discovered…