The Intercept: Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

The Intercept reports that, in the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE detention centers according to a new study.

It quotes a Tulane professor: “Google actively suppresses carceral information, narratives, and digital trace data related to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention facilities,” wrote Muira McCammon, a professor in Tulane Department of Communication "who has been scraping and analyzing self-reported accounts of ICE imprisonment posted to Google Maps since last year."

Google said in a blog post that it reserved the right to delete Maps reviews for locations that are “consistently unhelpful, harmful, or off-topic. This includes places that people go to without choice or places only accessible to people stationed or assigned there—such as police stations and prisons.”