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Google leadership, up and down, is filled with people who are of Jewish and Israeli heritage (or are married to them). What did you expect? Find me a Palestinian in any of their leadership team.

I'm not suggesting they're intentionally doing this with google maps, but lacking a Palestinian voice, it's easy for Jewish and Israeli bias to take over.

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Bias confirmed. According to Google Maps "Quick Facts": Poland is a place of Jewish heritage, and not much else...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Poland/

Wow, this is actually really bad.

> In 2014, an estimated 87% of the population belonged to the Catholic Church

> Prior to Second World War there were 3,500,000 Jews in the Polish Second Republic, about 10% of the general population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Poland

I have no idea where they got the claim that Poland is a place of Jewish heritage, what the hell google?

maybe the intent was to say that Poland is a prominent place _for_ Jewish heritage, i.e. a large proportion of the Jewish people lived in Poland for ~1,000 years.

It doesn’t make sense to prioritize that over the clear majority of Christians.

It’s a bit of a reality bias, for most poeple’s living memory. Politics and what people wish were true aside, the outcome for Palestinians is more or less a forgone conclusion. Acknowledging what is rather than a fantasy of what think should be isn’t really a bias, it’s reporting facts. In the same way that fact sheets on America will talk a lot about what America is today, and not a history lesson about how it was colonized by Europeans.

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