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Dragonfly

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21 articles accelerating

Dragonfly has appeared in 21 articles since 2018-08. Coverage peaked in 2018Q4 with 7 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, China, Intercept, Ryan Gallagher.

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+100.0%
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Acceleration
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Sources
9
publications

Coverage Timeline

2019-03-28
The Intercept 4 related

Sources: Google is secretly assessing work completed on Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China, leaving some staff concerned work on it continues

Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned.

2019-03-05
The Intercept 8 related

Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, after finding recent code changes associated with the censored search engine and more

& took matters into their own hands. They began to investigate. Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : Hundreds of changes have continued to be made this year to code associated with the Dragonfly platform,...

2018-12-12
Recode 48 related

Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”

does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...

2018-12-02
The Intercept 16 related

Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings

including to most Google employees — and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification,” writes Jack Poulson. http://theintercept.com/... Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : ...

2018-12-01
The Intercept 13 related

Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings

pardon my lingo — “big yikes” if true. Yonatan at Google was an effective leader of large engineering projects: known for having both the ear of upper management, and the willingness & desire to liste...

2018-11-30
The Intercept 12 related

Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings

pardon my lingo — “big yikes” if true. Yonatan at Google was an effective leader of large engineering projects: known for having both the ear of upper management, and the willingness & desire to liste...

2018-10-09
The Intercept

Transcript of remarks on Dragonfly by Google search chief Ben Gomes to staff seem to contradict Google's claims about limited progress on Chinese search engine

“We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google's search engine chief.  “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.” Tweets: @kateconger , @jillianiles , @aascha...

2018-08-18
The Interface 12 related

Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim

On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets.  Employees who had been pressing top executives …

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 35 Techmeme articles mentioning Dragonfly, dating back to September 2017. The biggest stories include In an open letter, 60 Google employees join Amnesty International in calling on Google to... and Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Ryan Gallagher, Project Dragonfly, Intercept, and Yonatan.

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2024Q2developer +100pts; competition +100pts
2024Q4developer -100pts; competition -100pts
2025Q2developer +50pts

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