Question:
Does the company disclose in its modern slavery statement that it seeks to detect modern slavery on any social media platforms it owns or distributes?
Answer:
Rescuing children from exploitation In 2018, in partnership with Thorn and Interpol, Google Cloud created an engineering initiative,
Office of the CTO Cloud for Service, committed to deploying Google Cloud to help locate children who are victims of sexual exploitation
and/or human trafficking. As part of this effort, we joined Interpol in three hackathons, resulting in new approaches for using Google
Cloud machine learning for language translation and video review tools, dramatically enhancing efforts to find victims.5
User engagement We provide robust tools to help our users report illegal content or abuse in our services, including community flagging
tools. We also invite users to contact us with complaints about illegal content or abuse through our product Help Centers.5
Advertising Our advertising policies do not allow ads containing adult-oriented content that targets minors, ads promoting sexually
explicit content, including content with underage or non-consensual sexual themes, ads for compensated sexual acts, or ads that violate
applicable laws or regulations for any location that a campaign targets (collectively, “bad ads”). We enforce our policies through a robust
approval and monitoring process. We use the latest technology as well as manual review by teams that are specially trained to remove
bad ads—and bad advertisers—from Google. This is a constant challenge, and we are always seeking ways to ensure our systems and
practices stay ahead of the evolving risk.5