"We've made some progress and we obviously need to do more," Matt Brittin, president of Google's Europe, Middle East and Africa division, told reporters at Google's European headquarters in Dublin on Thursday. A day after bombshell indictments in a US probe of Moscow's election interference and possible coordination between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, Facebook, Google and Twitter told concerned lawmakers Tuesday they were taking necessary steps to rid their platforms of disinformation, propaganda and provocation. - Committed to Europe -But misinformation is not the only battle Google is facing. "The advertisers pullback has been limited but relatively serious," Brittin said, but there was "no big impact on our numbers". Brittin also said Google was committed to developing its European operations, which count about 14,000 employees.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 03, 2017 21:00 UTC