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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would investigate accusations that Google worked with the Chinese government, but gave no other details in his early morning tweet on Tuesday. Representatives for Google could not be immediately reached for comment on Trump’s comments, which follow accusations from one of his supporters, entrepreneur and Facebook Inc board member Peter Thiel. Source

Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire who supports Donald Trump, continued his habit of saying ridiculous things, but, for once, he may be correct on at least one point. A stopped clock is right twice a day, after all. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, Thiel, who also spoke at the Republican National Convention, called on the FBI and CIA to investigate Google for treason. Thiel alleged that the tech company aided the Chinese military. He called on the intelligence agencies to...

Zach Gibson / Getty Images LGBTQ activists sent a letter Wednesday to the CEOs of companies including AT&T, Microsoft, and Google, calling on them to end their financial support of politicians who fight against LGBTQ rights.The group, Zero for Zeros, analyzed the contribution data between 2010 and 2019 of the top-scoring companies on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. It...

Google employees were told that they can’t protest Google’s policies if they march with the company in a Pride parade. An internal memo was obtained by The Verge that said that Google employees who planned to march with the company in the upcoming San Francisco Pride parade would be punished if they wore clothing that protested the company or otherwise made a statement against Google or its policies. The company has come under scrutiny this past month for its harassment and...

NYC LGBT Community Center & Google launch digital monument ‘Stonewall Forever’In 2016, President Barack Obama ordered 7.7 acres of Christopher Street in New York City to be designated as the Stonewall Monument, the first-ever national monument dedicated to the LGBTQ movement. Today, with generous support from Google, New York’s LGBT Community Center is launching Stonewall Forever, a digital extension of the Stonewall Monument. “Stonewall is such a big moment in our history,” Glennda...

Astute users of Google Sheets, a free, web-based spreadsheet program offered by Google Drive, found a Pride Month secret in the program. Last week, David Murphy at Life Hacker wrote about how to get a Google spreadsheet to turn rainbow colors. All you have to do is write the word “PRIDE” in the first row, with one letter per cell. Deleting any of the letters ends the rainbow colors. If you actually want to use a spreadsheet with the Pride background, Murphy...

BiNet USA's AdWords account was flagged for using 'sexually explicit' words A Google team has apologized for incorrectly banning the use of the words ‘bisexual’ and ‘gay.’ Faith Cheltenham is the VP of BiNet USA, an American nonprofit organization for the bisexual community. She tweeted a picture of an email she received yesterday about BiNet USA’s AdWords account being flagged. Google AdWords told her they flagged the account because they were using ‘sexually explicit’ keywords. The specific words mention were bisexual and gay. In the...

The internet titan has partnered with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center to chronicle the landmark's history. Last year President Barack Obama named Manhattan's Stonewall Inn — the site of an early clash in the fight for LGBT rights in America — a national monument with the goal of preserving it as a historic site. Now internet giant Google is assisting with a $1 million grant to New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center...

Which name can you expect to see in his Google search history, then? Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy has revealed who his favourite gay porn star is, but it looks like he has competition from Tyler Oakley for the lucky man’s affection. In a new video on YouTube, the pair discussed at what age they first started watching gay porn. “14,” was Gus’s answer, before he added: “I used to watch gay porn and then I’d feel guilty that I had just done...

A new advert for Google Home features gay dads, and it doesn’t make a big deal out of it at all. The ad for the Google device last for just over half a minute, and shows off its capability to support and recognise multiple users. The couple featured in the ad, Ross and Alex, both ask the device what is happening in their work days. They do this while their kids look on, eating breakfast. In the end, Ross realises he has a...

Google Ventures, now known as GV, has joined a growing list of tech and corporate heavyweights speaking out against North Carolina’s HB 2, a law that the companies say discriminates against transgender people in the state. And GV, the early and middle-stage investment arm of Alphabet, is taking it a step further: Its chief has pledged not to back any companies from the state until the law is repealed. Bill Maris, the CEO of GV, added his name to a Human...

In the closet and worried people won’t accept you? Out and worried that you’ll receive abuse in certain places? You can now worry a little less at the hands of Google as they’ve launched their new Places of Pride map. Usng this map lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people can now travel knowing where around the whole world they can feel safe. And the best part is that people of the LGBT community can held each other find their own Places...

The most memorable moments of 2015 raised trillions of questions inserted in Google search throughout the whole year. One of them was same-sex marriage and equality. 2015 became the year when Supreme Court recognized the Constitution guarantees marriage equality to gay and lesbian couples in all the 50 states in the USA. 26th of June 2015 became a historical even in a life of all LGBT people who felt free to marry whoever they want to. Google couldn’t miss this...

Among other issues, the LGBT community has been also struggling with discrimination at the workplace. While activists and campaigns fight for the LGBT community’s equal rights in all areas, HRC gives as good as one gets. In 2002 they created the Corporate Equality Index. The Corporate Equality Index serves the LGBT community in finding the companies that meet all the criteria for workplace equality. In 2016 they have ranked 1,024 businesses and according to a press release they have used...